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Homerfarmsby Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

You's guys

What's up with you's guys' performance?
What's up with your guys' performance?

Which one? How'd you punctuate it?

Thanks.
  

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you guys' performance CJ

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you guys' performance

CJ
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homerfarmsbyWhat's up with you's guys' performance?
What's up with your guys' performance?
When I was a kid, I frequently read the comics. "Youse guys" was a common collocation, indicating the lowest register slang, usually attributed to gangster types.
But I don't think there was a possessive, unless it was "youse guys's performance."
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The Southerners have no problem with this.

What was up with y'alls' performance??
Emotion: stick out tongue

Did you mean "t
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Grammar GeekDid you mean "the performance of your guys" or "the performance of all of you guys"?
Good point, GG. I assumed -- maybe too quickly -- that it was the latter.

CJ

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