In a sentence, would you say “I myself is”, or “I myself are”?

If you must say “myself,” it is “I myself am.” Adding what looks to me like an appositive changes nothing about subject-verb agreement. Even better, just “Personally, I am…” or even just “I am. read more

In case you ever need to defend yourselves as I myself have done on countless occasions. I think there might be a difference between the two, but I wonder whether the first one is correct or even whether the second might be wrong. read more

Yourselves is used in the same way in the sentence you quote from ‘Harry Potter’. Reflexive pronouns are also used for emphasis, and that is how myself is being used in ‘I myself don't like this idea’ (although that would probably occur as ‘I don't like this idea myself’). read more