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Question!!!! who is you and who you.
I want to know if it's correct to say Who you instead of Who is you in informal situations.
-Who is you?
-Who you?
9 de feb. de 2016 21:47
Respuestas · 5
3
who are you- is correct.
9 de febrero de 2016
1
It should be "who ARE you?". "Who you" and "who is you" would be wrong in an informal conversation.
Remember this:
- Who am I?
- Who are you? (The word "you" can refer to only 1 person OR a group of people. Here, you are talking directly to the person or the group of people).
- Who is he? Who is she?
- Who are we?
- Who are they? ("They" refers to a group of many people, not 1 person. Here, you are not talking directly to the group of people, but you might be asking someone else about the group). For example, you might see a group of footballers and point at them while asking your friend "who are they?" Your friend might say "they are footballers".
I hope this helps.
10 de febrero de 2016
1
The pronoun 'you' is always treated as plural. So you need to use 'are' instead of 'is'.
Who are you?
'Who you?' sounds very bad.
9 de febrero de 2016
1
You wouldn’t use either of them. You would say, “Who are you?"
9 de febrero de 2016
Both are wrong and neither of them are used, however informal the situation.
The only time I can think of when "to be" is omitted is when it's part of a yes-no question in the second person continuous e.g. "(Are) you doing...?". It's very informal and should be avoided in formal situations. Otherwise "to be" is never omitted.
9 de febrero de 2016
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Guilherme Wallace
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Inglés, Francés, Portugués
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