"I feel really like it's absolutely imperative that myself and this delegation of women have gotten together to come down and show that we haven't forgotten, we still care about these children, we are going to continue to lobby for these children." - Reese Witherspoon, on touring the region affected by Hurricane Katrina
This quote contains two grammatical errors: the improper usage of "like" and the improper usage of "myself."
"Like" is not a subordinating conjunction. In this sentence, the subordinate clause "like it's absolutely imperative" requires a subordinating conjunction. "Like" can function as a preposition, but here it is not introducing a prepositional phrase.
"Myself" is a reflexive or emphatic pronoun. This type of pronoun cannot function as a subject. In this sentence, "myself and this delegation of women" is the subject of the subordinate clause that begins with "that." A personal pronoun in the subjective case is required.
This version of Reese's statement corrects both errors:
"I feel really that it's absolutely imperative that this delegation of women and I have gotten together to come down and show that we haven't forgotten, we still care about these children, we are going to continue to lobby for these children."
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