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andruby on Dec 25, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (...

I’ve heard lots of people with a Spanish background make mistakes against this. Iirc in Spanish you often should use it in front of a name.

kevinmchugh on Dec 25, 2023 [–]

It's probably the most common class of error for people who learn English as adults. There's lots of strange, hard to explain meaning encoded in which (if any) article a person chooses. "I dropped by the school today" and "I dropped by school today" are both valid and have slightly different implications

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