Yourself vs Yourselves

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Track title: Quiet Intelligence

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Chapters
00:00 Yourself Vs Yourselves
00:17 Answer 1 Score 3
00:31 Accepted Answer Score 8
00:59 Answer 3 Score 0
01:05 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 8

If you're referring to the smiles of more than one person, then you are addressing more than one person.

In the event of a foreseeable danger to multiple persons, you would say

brace yourselves for impact...
prepare yourselves for freezing temperatures...
you will be exposing yourselves to high heat...

Similarly, keep those smiles to yourselves is something exasperated teachers might say to their students.

ANSWER 2

Score 3

Yourselves would be the appropriate choice here since smiles is plural. If you were to refer to a single person's smile, you would then use yourself.

ANSWER 3

Score 0

Here are some of my personal notes: