RageOverdose wrote: Why in God’s name would century, which defines a period of 100 years, be abstract?

Unless you want to debate the nature of time, but that’s not really something you’d do in literature.

RageOverdose wrote:


“Herself” is actually correct because her is objective, but hers is the possessive form. “Hisself” wouldn’t make sense because “his” is possessive.

In fact, what you said makes no sense, because you don’t actually know why.

When you say “He hurt himself," you aren’t using “himself” as a possessive noun, but rather as a direct object. “His” is a possessive pronoun, not an object. “Him” is an objective pronoun, and since the one being hurt is him, but he’s doing to his being, then its a direct object, the noun being “himself."

There was probably a simpler way to explain it, and more proper names for it, but there you go.