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What is right to write?
Send us a photo of you.
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Send us a photo of yourself.
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Yes, it's "yourself". This is one of the few instances in which it is correct to use the reflexive pronoun when its antecedent hasn't already been mentioned. :wink:
Wouldn't you say that you is always the implicit subject of imperative sentences?
Yes I would, but that is a little different from it being "mentioned". :wink:
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Maybe it has left a Chomskian trace.
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Chomsky would probably say that it was hard-wired in the sentence. :wink:
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