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The fact that you seem to not have seen this before indicates that you cannot actually always contract ‘you’ and ‘are’. ‘Cannot’ in the sense that most people don’t do it and you will get grades deducted if you do it when learning English as a second language.
I'm still re-reading this sentence. How does not having seen this before indicate what you can or can not do?
I love how they are trying to correct bad grammar with even worse grammar
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Both of these are perfectly grammatical in modern English though?
It's poor sentence structure
By what objective metric?
They don’t think it be like it is, but it do
Now that I re-read it, I’m pretty sure the second one should be “actually cannot always”.
I retract the word ‘indicate.’ It’s not proof, but if you haven’t seen a phrase before, despite n years of reading and/or speaking a language, it means that that phrase is uncommon. If that phrase also looks like it should be used more (I’m referring to “you’re” being very common in different sentence structures), that’s a strong hint that the phrase doesn’t exist or has some very different meaning in that context.
Because language is a thing that everyone agrees on, together. If nobody else is using the words like that, maybe you shouldn't either.
This is the line I am referring to, not any specific word. This sentence is nonsensical:
"The fact you seem to not have seen this before indicates..." followed by "that you cannot always contract 'you' and 'are.'"
How are those related? If someone hasn't seen this before... it indicates ... grammar rules? How does not seeing it indicate a grammar rule?
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I wasn’t trying to imply that contracting is always wrong. Rather, it is not always right.
This is why I find contracting “You are already“ weird. To me, the stress is on the are. However, after reading and re-reading the statement in my head, I can feel people stressing the already instead. To those, “You’re already” would probably be fine.
No, "cannot" is the more formal way to write it.
In this case, "you already are" feels more natural than "you are already." I think that might be part of why the contraction feels weird? I sure can't explain why to someone who doesn't have the same feeling.