In point of usage, Ngrams shows a slight preference for What about you: COCA shows 770 instances of how about you, the vast majority of which are in the proper context (a few are in the form of how about you do so-and-so), and 1002 of what about you, all of which that I saw were in this context. BNC has 78 versus 202, an even more marked ...

When the stakes are high you are often tempted to cheat. You might prefer the former to the latter because the latter comes across as very accusatory. This is really the only circumstance I will use "one" as opposed to "you." Generally, except in very formal writing, "one" comes across as rather pretentious or old fashioned.

You can't score if you don't shoot. 1965 Glenn Warner, "Soccer Shot," in Soccer Anthology , edited by Alva C. Moore and Melvin R. Schmid ({Gainesville FL}: for the editors) 57: "Don't overdo passing when shooting territory is reached (bang away—you can't score if you don't shoot)"; the article i said to be reprinted from the Newsletter of the ...

2010年9月25日 · You've likely seen the common example: The human brain often skips any extra words that appear in the the sentence they're reading. The same behaviour might happen with the extra "that" appearing in your sentence. So while it might be correct in theory, perhaps you could reword your sentence such that it becomes more readable for your audience.

As far as I know, you actually is the formal, originally plural version (ye/you/your) and thou was the informal version (thou/thee/thy/thine). Over time, thou became impolitely informal and is now no longer used, though interestingly enough nowadays it might even be perceived as more formal than you because it's archaic and survives almost ...

I think that the phrase . your and your competitors’ relative market performance. is a pretty odd fish in the first place—because performance comes out singular here even though the actual subject being discussed is at least two instances of performance (yours and your competitors', the latter of which may be tracked as a set of grouped and averaged numbers or as multiple sets of ...

2010年9月22日 · Before they all merged into the catch-all form you, English second person pronouns distinguished between nominative and objective, as well as between singular and plural (or formal): thou - singular informal, subject (Thou art here. = You are here.) thee - singular informal, object (He gave it to thee.) ye - plural or formal, subject

The term acknowledge (which is already used by you in the question) summarises what you want neatly. From M-W: Legal Definition of acknowledge acknowledged acknowledging. 2 a : to show by word or act that one has knowledge of and accepts responsibility for …

2011年3月26日 · Is person 1 saying the first sentence and person 2 is saying "you bet" , or this is a one complete sentence up to "you bet" by only one person? – user54352 Commented Oct 17, 2013 at 16:32

The NOAD reports that aren't is the contraction of are not, and am not; in the latter case, it is used only in questions.