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 …

2014年5月6日 · The semantically singular second-person you is grammatically: a third-person plural in German; a third-person singular in Spanish; a second-person plural in Russian; In …

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 …

The now-common you was originally used in objective forms alone, so accusative or dative. For example, Wordsworth draws the nominative–dative distinction when he writes in Lyrical …

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 …

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2017年7月5日 · You’re not Spanish, are you? So, "Help yourself to a drink, won't you?" implies the opposite: you should help yourself to a drink. It is therefore a polite offer. "Help yourself to …

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 …