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SunFlowerSeed Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Singular You.

0 Is there any way to use YOU for a single person. I mean stressing YOU that it is used for a singular person.02br
00It is singular and plural at the same time.02br
00Or any other word that can be used as a singular you.02br
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00Is it possible to make I plural? Not the meaning of WE. Like many I.02br
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00Why? For poetic reasons.02br
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00''There are many 01font00I's02font00 in my head, and I am changing into one from another, thus 01font00you02font00 can never know who I really am.''02br
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00I want to stress 01font00you02font00 in this sentence to make the other person be sure that it is only singular you.02br
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00Also grammar corrections are welcome on the sentence, or any other way of saying it.0-
  

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0Hi,02br 02br 01table 01tr 01td 02br 02br 02td 02tr 02table 02br 01font 00Is there any way to use YOU for a single person. 00 The context often makes it clear which is meant, eg You are a beautiful woman. Or 'I love you' (said while holding her in my arms).

— Clive

  • 0Hi,02br 02br 01table 01tr 01td 02br 02br 02td 02tr 02table 02br 01font 00Is there any way to use YOU for a single person.
  • 00 The context often makes it clear which is meant, eg You are a beautiful woman.
  • Or 'I love you' (said while holding her in my arms).
  • 02br 00Or any other word that can be used as a singular you.
  • 02br 02br 01font 01i 00Thou02i 00 are (or archaic 'art') beautiful.
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0Hi,02br
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01font00Is there any way to use YOU for a single person. I mean stressing YOU that it is used for a singular person.00 The context often makes it clea
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0 Thanks for the reply and corrections.02br
00'Thou' would look archaic.02br
00I assume that '' I's '' is used correctly with apostrophe, because you haven't corrected it.0-
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00You Are What You Is (Zappa, September 1981)02h1

00Do you know what you are? 02br
00 You are what you is 02br
00 You is what you am 02br
01i00(A cow don't make ham . . . )02i02br
00 You ain't what you're not 02br
00 So see what you got 02br
00 You are wh
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0HI,02br
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00In songs and poetry, writers often play with or ignore grammar rules. I don't recommend that people who are learning English should do that.05002br
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00Best wishes, Clive010id1
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