Given 3 choices, "me", "myself", and "I", what is the most proper word
to fill in the blank below?
"No one but _____ could have managed to do such a thing."
Include an explanatory breakdown,
stating any applicable rules and/or exceptions.
Hello cjmorley,
I recall from my schooldays a short rule,
which helps one to remember the functions
of parts of a sentence:
'The subject verbs the object'
Correlating with the following
convention, sourced from
The Technical Communicators Resource Site:
Writing Styleguide:
http://www.techcommunicators.com/stylegui/style-m.html
"Use the pronoun 'I' as a subject,
Use 'me' as an object; use 'myself'
when the person receiving the action
is the same as the person doing the action."
your example should read:
"No one but I could have managed to do such a thing."
"No one but [the subject]
could have managed [to verb] such an [object]"
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Your research has aptly jogged my memory,
but I disagree with your conclusion.
Using the information
"use 'myself' when the person receiving the action
is the same as the person doing the action",
I agree that the answer is definitely not "myself."
"No one" is the subject, though, isn't it?
The word "but" begins a prepositional phrase.
With that in mind, the fill-in-the-blank becomes
the object of a preposition, calling for "me" in this case.
Rearranging the sentence to
"No one could have managed to do such a thing but I."
is clearly incorrect unless "but" acts as a conjunction and continues
the sentence like so:
"No one could have managed to do such a thing, but I don't care."
:)
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Hello again cjmorley,
I'm glad the information I found was
able to help refresh your mind.
Following through your logic, I
would agree that 'no one but me' should
be used in this case!
You may of course request a refund if
you are dissatisfied with the information
given.
Best regards,
gan.
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English language question on the difference between "me" "myself" and "I"