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  ‘I think the king is but a man’: why we, like King Charles, always reach for Shakespeare’s words The new monarch is quick to quote the playwright, but given the bard’s genius with simple language, who wouldn’t? Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet in 1992.  Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian Vanessa Thorpe Sat 10 Sep 2022 20.05 BST Why is the apt phrase so often one from Shakespeare? King Charles’s address to the nation has been praised for its emotional authenticity and fitting use of moving words from  Hamlet . They are spoken over the dying Danish prince by his friend Horatio, who bids a fond farewell: “Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” Some television viewers recognised the lines not from the classic tragedy, but from an episode of Blackadder. Ben Elton, who co-wrote the TV show, adores Shakespeare, proving his devotion with the sitcom and stage play Upstart Crow and his film All is True, starring Kenneth Branagh as the Bard. The old...

  Use a reflexive  pronoun when the subject and the object are the same.  For example: Chris was talking to himself. What Are Reflexive Pronouns? (with Examples) The reflexive pronouns are  myself ,  yourself ,  herself ,  himself ,  itself ,  ourselves ,  yourselves , and  themselves . (These words can be either  reflexive pronouns  or  emphatic pronouns . This page is about their use as reflexive pronouns.) A reflexive  pronoun  is used when something does something to itself. For example: John  pinched  himself . (The reflexive pronoun  himself  tells us that  John  did something to  John .) Compare the example above with this: John pinched his sister. (There is no reflexive pronoun in this example. John did something to someone else, not to himself.) Easy Examples of Reflexive Pronouns Below are some examples of reflexive pronouns. Using a reflexive pronoun means you do...

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Homophones sound the same, homographs are spelled the same, and homonyms do both. How to Remember the Difference After he was sick for several days, his face was ___________________(pail/pale).   She purchased a beautiful new gown _________________(for/four) the dance.   Walking down the _______________(I’ll/aisle/isle) to get married can be scary.   Glass containers have been ________________(band/banned) on the beach.   The baker systematically kneaded the _____________(doe/dough) for the bread.   I’d rather receive my _________________(male/mail) electronically than on paper.   He was considered __________________(bald/bawled) because he had no hair.   We searched everywhere trying to ________________(fined/find) our lost dog.   My favorite stringed instrument is the ___________(base/bass) because it is so big.   The fight __________________(scene/seen) in the movie was extremely exciting!   Though he was already tired, the farm...