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13 janv. 2014 · 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.
You would say "How are you?" when you don't know the person very well, or when you meet someone for the first time, whereas you would say "How are you doing?" when you already know someone, or act as if you already knew them. So "How are you doing?" is more warmful but it can be felt as a little too friendly in a formal context. Here's an ...
6 mai 2014 · In English, you originally was a second-person plural. For the singular you, there was a different word: thou (cf. German Du, Spanish tu, Russian ты). So you would ask "how are you", but "how is thou" (more accurately, "how art thou", but that is going too deep). However, by now thou is obsolete and archaic. You has taken over.
What about you? requests a statement about you in general, while How about you? requests a response about your manner, means, or condition. This leaves room for lots of personal preferences, presumptuous proscriptions, and zombie rules, to say nothing of actual sociocultural variation. – John Lawler.
12 janv. 2017 · 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".
22 déc. 2014 · The construction in question here has an implicit plural subject. The 'who is' construction isn't ungrammatical. 'Who are' is another option, and when the purpose of the sentence is to convey a sense of community there is little doubt that the chairs are occupied by more than one person. – Coty Johnathan Saxman.
8 août 2011 · I might say #2 "fine by you" as to say: « in my opinion ». I would say "fine with you" if it was with me personally. #1 seems to be a personal thing. #2 seems to be an opinion thing. I could substitute #2 with "That be fine according to me." or "That be fine in my opinion."
You might say transactions as of but balance as at. As FROM is not an idiom in English as far as I have ever heard. In order to be more clear, you could use different language altogether: I need all transactions up to and including January 23rd. I need all transactions since January 23rd.
But you won't say or hear: Explain someone. (Well, you could say it, but that would be the exception rather than the rule. e.g.: Explain Chopin to me. if you talk to a pianist who knows that composer really well.)
15 mai 2014 · You're going to finish it by when? If we want to put questions like this in a normal question form we have a choice: we can either move the preposition and the question word (the complement of the preposition): With what are you cooking it? By when are you going to finish it?-or you can just move the question word: What are you cooking it with?
