• KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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    15 days ago

    Are there any situations where the second person singular forms of a verb are not the same as the plural ones?

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      14 days ago

      The verb follows the conjugation of the subject, and in modern English, the singular second person is the same word as the plural second person (you) , but that wasn’t always the case. In Old English, the second person plural was thou, and verbs conjugated differently - for example, you are (singular) and thou art (plural).

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        13 days ago

        You mixed up singular and plural, thou was used for singular/informal situations and ye (you) was used for plural/formal situations