Get out of a bad situation or get yourself out of a bad situation?
Do you say, "to try to get out of a difficult/bad situation" or "to try to get yourself out of a difficult/bad situation"?
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They are both possible. In typical sentence contexts the reflexive pronoun is optional: I understand that you did it to try to get (yourself) out of a bad situation. He did it to try to get (himself) out of a bad situation.
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They are both possible. In typical sentence contexts the reflexive pronoun is optional:
I understand that you did it to try to get (yourself) out of a bad situation.
He did it to try to get (himself) out of a bad situation.
If it is included, the reflexive pronoun must match the prior subject, of course. Obviously the following is not correct:
* He did it
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