Is this the correct way to write this sentence? I thought about saying, "I knew this would interest you as much as it did myself", but wasn't sure if 'me' or 'myself' would be correct.
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5The reflexive "myself" would be wrong -- "me" is fine – BillJ Jul 21 '17 at 05:35
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Related: When is it correct to use “yourself” and “myself” (versus “you” and “me”)? I don't think the answers are very helpful, though. – herisson Jul 22 '17 at 18:33
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Here is another related question, with an answer that I am not sure about because it doesn't cite anything: Should I use “me” or “myself” here? Maybe When to use “myself” or “me” is more useful. – herisson Jul 22 '17 at 18:39
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Dictionaries provide answers to this type of question.
According to Dictionary.com, Art. "myself",
the pronoun "myself"
1. gives more intensity to "me"
2. and is used
in place of I or me after as, than, or but [my bold]
The second aspect suggests that while "me" is not wrong, "myself" seems to be more common.
I don't know though if there is a reason why "myself" is preferred over "me".
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I don't know though if there is a reason why "myself" is preferred over "me". Just pretentiousness in my opinion. – BoldBen Nov 20 '17 at 06:59
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You’re misreading the dictionary. Or rather, misparsing the sentence. “After as, than, or but_” doesn’t mean “at any place in a clause that has one of these three words somewhere before it”, but “as the object of these three prepositions”. _Me/myself is not the object of as here; the quoted part is not relevant. Me would definitely be a lot more common than myself in this case. – Janus Bahs Jacquet Dec 19 '17 at 20:43