That's the question I heard myself uttering this morning in class. Under what circumstances would it be unobjectionable to utter the words "You is who here?"
Bingo! We were looking at pronouns at work, and the question could have been stated thus: "In this particular sentence, to whom does the word 'you' refer?" But it didn't quite come out that way.
The only situation I can think of is in China or in an ESL classroom. "Yu, is Hu here?"
ReplyDeleteI could also vaguely imagine it working in a discussion of some piece of literature that uses the second person--"You" is who, here?
ReplyDeleteBingo! We were looking at pronouns at work, and the question could have been stated thus: "In this particular sentence, to whom does the word 'you' refer?" But it didn't quite come out that way.
ReplyDeleteAh, I was going to guess that it had some relation to Abbot and Costello's "Who's on First?"
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