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[–] [email protected] 223 points 2 years ago (52 children)

“You’re already” makes sense as a sentence and I don’t like it lol

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (16 children)

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.

[–] joby 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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