Tuesday, August 5, 2014

contractions - Is it okay to say "Yes you're." instead of "Yes you are."?











I was having an SMS conversation with a friend and somehow "Yes you're" came into play in retaliation to a comment.



Example:




Person 1: "You are bad at English".



Person 2: "No I are not.".




Person 1: "Yes you're".




Is that acceptable?



I would assume that it is.



Think of "don't".




You can say:




"No, don't."




or




"I don't."





and it is a contraction like "you're".



So, is it okay?


Answer



No, this is unidiomatic. "You're" always requires a subjective completion. (And to my ears, it sounds completely wrong.)


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