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Eipjoo Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

‘you’ instead of ‘he’?

In the sentence:

Hagrid must have forgotten to tell him something you had to do, like tapping the third brick on the left to get into Diagon Alley.

Whey the writer says ‘you’ instead of ‘he’?
  

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"You" can mean essentially the same thing as the pronoun "one", a person. ( AHD , pronoun 2)

  • "You" can mean essentially the same thing as the pronoun "one", a person.
  • ( AHD , pronoun 2)
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"You" can mean essentially the same thing as the pronoun "one", a person. ( AHD, pronoun 2)

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