Let’s parse the sentence:
“Bob and you” is the compound subject
“are” (or were, depending on context) going" is the complete verb (also called the simple predicate); “are” is the progressive auxillary, “going” is the main verb (intransitive)
“to the store” is an adverbial prepositional phrase
Maybe on your planet. Here on Earth, that’s not how it works. After all, many Romance languages originally came from Latin. Oddly, though, no one spells like those wacky Latiners did! Same with American English, which arose mainly from British English but also borrowed heavily from many other languages, such as French, Italian, Spanish, and (of course) Latin itself. Not to mention the influence the Slavic languages had on American English, too.
No, sir, Americans do not “have” to spell the way the English do. Sorry you feel that way.
sorry did`nt mean you have to spell it our way ,just meant ENGLISH spelling not BRITISH spelling
