Writing for Business - A Whatis.com Blog » me or myself http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business Is your grammar as good as your code? Tue, 21 May 2013 19:44:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Writing for business – me or myself? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/writing-for-business-me-or-myself/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/writing-for-business-me-or-myself/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:24:34 +0000 Ivy Wigmore http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/?p=323 typing Which is correct?

I designed the new space to please ____ as much as I designed it to please the client.
a. me
b. myself

Answer: b

Myself is a reflexive pronoun. Although it’s often used incorrectly in business writing (and even more often in business speech), in this context, it’s the correct form.

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