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Bookmark or Share- Usage of "if you would" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeWhen you have would in the “if” part, it essentially means “be willing to”: If you would please take your seats, we could get the movie started. If only you were willing to sit down, we could get the movie started. If you sat down, we could get the movie started.
- "What about you?" versus "How about you?" - English Language & Usage ...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 the form of how about you do so-and-so), and 1002 of what about you, all of which that I saw were in this context. BNC has 78 versus 202, an even more marked ...
- "You are" vs. "you're" — what is the difference between them?You are is normally contracted to you're in speech, because English doesn't like two vowels without a consonant to separate them, and one of them gets deleted. Either you're or you are can be used; speaker's choice. The same thing applies to I'm, he's, she's, we're, and they're, among other contractions. It's just colloquial English, that's all.
- is there any difference between "you'd" and "you would" in the meaning?You'd has two meanings, which are you had and you would. 1 We use you had with better and you would with rather. You had is usually used for suggestion. Example: You'd better (you had better) avoid the stalls on the street. So you'd means you had in your first sentence. Your second sentence is grammatically wrong.
- grammaticality - Which is correct, "you and I" or "you and me ...You're right when you say that I should be used in the nominative and me in English's oblique or objective case, usually as an object of the verb phrase, but also of a prepositional phrase. A case where you and I is incorrect is when the pronoun is the object of the the preposition between. "Just between you and me". *"Just between you and I".
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