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New Hope Posted 8 years ago
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You as a plural pronoun

Can we use you as a plural pronoun as in the sentence below?

You are students.

  

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New Hope Can we use you as a plural pronoun as in the sentence below? You are students. Yes.

  • New Hope Can we use you as a plural pronoun as in the sentence below?
  • You are students.
  • Yes.
  • 'you' is always plural even when it refers to one person.
  • English lost the singular form of 'you' several centuries ago, and now we use only the plural form for both singular and plural referents.
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New Hope

Can we use you as a plural pronoun as in the sentence below?

You are students.

Yes.

'you' is always plural even when it refers to one person. English lost the singular form of 'you' several centuries ago, and now we use only the plural form for both singular and plural referents.

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