grammar question- you're

Factual Questions
1

This is just a pointless thing that I’ve been wondering about for a while that is best explained by examples.

  1. You’re going to the store.
  2. Bob and you are going to the store.
  3. Bob and you’re going to the store.

The first two seem perfectly cool, but the third is the question. The mathematical part of my mind thinks that ‘Bob and you’ is an atomic unit, to which the ‘are’ belongs equally. It feels wrong to drop the ‘a’ which belongs to bob as well. But also it’s just normal apostrophe rules, with two common words. It just sounds stupid to me, so I have no plans of using it, but is it technically a correct construction.

2

It should be “You and Bob are going to the store.”

3

No, Bob should go to the store alone

4

Or “You and Bob’re going to the store.”
Something just twtiched in my brain. :confused:
Peace,
mangeorge

5

Well depending upon whom I were speaking to, I would say exactly that!

6

Along the same lines, I’ve never heard anyone (seriously) use the contractions of “Here we are!” or “There you are!” These don’t even introduce the “you and Bob” unit.

What store was this, anyway?

Bob

7

Hey, while you and Bob are at the store can you pick some milk up for me?

8

Don’t use contractions in written English and you won’t :smiley: have a problem.

9

Also, fragments? Bad.

10

It depends upon whether the question is one of grammar or usage. Number 3 is grammatical, which is to say that it follows the standard rules for the formation of an English language sentence. However, it is poor usage, primarily because it just sounds icky.

11

What’cha buyin’?

12

I used number 3 occassionally, but I pronounce it differently from “you’re.” More like “you-er”

13

Are you sure about this? I’m no grammar expert, but it looks to me like Bob has no verbin example 3.

14

apart from the bad grammar of this statement, it would depend on how you wanted it to sound
for example-
You’re going to the store.
i don’t see what’s wrong with this, it’s the same as saying You are going to the store. It’s a statement, but technically could be used as a question
Bob and you are going to the store. Still a statement but again, could be used as a question
Bob and you’re going to the store. The only reason this doesn’t work is because if you say Bob and you are going to the store you always put in a comma such as-Bob and you, are going to the store, which make it differant from Bob and you’re going to the store

besides all of this, who really cares anyway?

15

If it’s a question, then use a question mark. It’s not the ordinary way that questions are phrased, but colloquially it’s OK. As to the last paragraph, I don’t know what the heck you’re talking about. You’d never put in a comma in the sentence: “Bob and you are going to the store.” I don’t know what you are trying to accomplish. I guess if you’re just talking to Bob, you could say, “Bob. And you are going to the store.” Which is kind of a verbose way of putting it. (See, I did use a fragment.)

16

He intends “you’re” to be a contraction for “you are”; therefore, a verb exists.

17

havnt got very good(ok none at all)grammer or spelling just like to post questions and debates.
everybody keeps pointing this out to me but you get more replys this way:D

18

also why bother with english grammer when you dont bother with english spelling i.e.coloUr theatRE?

19

If you mean why do Americans bother with English grammar, you’re wrong; there are certain differences between the two. Second, I think you mean British spelling and grammar, not English. Both Great Britain and the U. S. speak and write in the English language.

:smiley:

20

british spelling?
if the english langusge comes from england then you would have to spell the way the english do