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Bookmark or Share- What is the difference between "What are you?" and "Who are you?"?If you're in a group that has been discussing the nationality of different folks in the group then the question would be asking for your nationality. If you're in a group of college students discussing what year of college you're in then the answer might be "I'm a freshman" or "I'm a sophomore."
- What's the difference between ""on my mind"" and ""in my mind""?Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
- "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.
- Which is the correct one "You idiot" OR "you're an idiot""You idiot" OR "You're an idiot" I want to know which one is correct because in the first one there is no auxiliary verb. As I know if I wanted to say that someone is like someone/thing I'll say "He is a hero." So in the previous example we've used an auxiliary verb before a noun.
- pronouns - Is using "you" to refer to anyone, not the person you're ...Yep. In the sentence that you mentioned, you is used as a generic pronoun. In English grammar and in particular in casual English, generic you, impersonal you or indefinite you is the pronoun you in its use in referring to an unspecified person, as opposed to its use as the second person pronoun.
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