Welcome to LetThemTalk it is the year 1485 and in our lesson
today we're going to look at how to use second person pronouns in English so the
subject pronoun in the singular is THOU that's right
THOU. "Thou art beautiful" the object pronoun is THEE "This flower is for thee"
for the plural when you're speaking to more than one person just use YOU "make
sure you don't catch the plague". "Let me play you a song on my lute". Simple huh so
that's it English is great isn't it now you can go
out and speak to the three million people who speak the English language
Wow! farewell see you soon.
So that's a little history lesson for you YOU used to be a
plural not any more in modern English we don't use THOU and
THEE any more if you want to read Shakespeare by the way you need to learn
it but otherwise these days we just have one second person YOU. YOU for singular
YOU for plural YOU for formal YOU for informal I know many other languages
have a plural form of YOU but not modern English
that's great most of the time however sometimes it can pose a problem. How do
you make YOU plural? because sometimes you want to make it clear that you're
speaking to everybody in the group and not just one person so for example "Do
you want to come for a drink?" am I speaking to just her or am I
speaking to everybody in the group? well it's quite simple if you want to sound
informal then just say YOU GUYS "hey are you guys
going to come for a drink?". "You guys are so funny" What do you guys think of the new
CEO?" Remember GUYS when it's used as a plural can refer to all men, all women or
a mixed group. if you're using GUY as a singular then it's just a man.
If you want to be a little more formal you can say YOU ALL or
YOU LOT. "What are you all doing later?" why are you all looking at me
like that?" Will you all sing happy birthday when she
comes in". "Will you lot shut up" "Bravo you lot you are the best" "look here
you lot settle down and pay attention" Now do bear in mind that you will
find different plural forms of YOU in different parts of the english-speaking
world. If I'm not mistaken YOU GUYS and YOU ALL are also found in American
English but YOU LOT is more British. you might hear YOUS in some parts of the
english-speaking world not in London where I come from I think it's quite
common elsewhere you might hear Y'ALL in southern United States and there are
some other forms of YOU plural so do be aware of it but I'm talking here about
standard British English well be YOU ALL, YOU LOT or YOU GUYS. OK that's it I'd like to
thank you for watching stay mellow and see you guys in the next video