In point of usage, Ngrams shows a slight preference for What about you: COCA shows 770 instances of how about you, the vast majority of which are in the proper context (a few are in …

2013年2月1日 · It is pronounced just like it looks: "you all", with no contraction. Furthermore, "you" has come to function as both a singular and plural second-person pronoun. "You all" is …

You can't score if you don't shoot. 1965 Glenn Warner, "Soccer Shot," in Soccer Anthology , edited by Alva C. Moore and Melvin R. Schmid ({Gainesville FL}: for the editors) 57: "Don't …

2013年8月23日 · When the stakes are high you are often tempted to cheat. You might prefer the former to the latter because the latter comes across as very accusatory. This is really the only …

As far as I know, you actually is the formal, originally plural version (ye/you/your) and thou was the informal version (thou/thee/thy/thine). Over time, thou became impolitely informal and is now …

Since ye/you were plural, they always took a plural verb. Now in the present case, we can use "you" as either singular or plural, but it still always takes a plural verb, as it has always done. It …

2011年3月26日 · Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for …

I think that the phrase . your and your competitors’ relative market performance. is a pretty odd fish in the first place—because performance comes out singular here even though the actual …

In your specific case, neither 'was' nor 'were' is best; you should say "if it is running". "If it were running" is subjunctive case, used to describe hypothetical situations: "If it were running, I …

2010年9月25日 · You've likely seen the common example: The human brain often skips any extra words that appear in the the sentence they're reading. The same behaviour might happen with …