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informal, partially from hem, the original dative and accusative of they [2] [3] you y'- 2nd person pronoun (you) has plurality marked in some varieties of English (e.g. Southern United States) by combining with e.g. all, which is then usually contracted to y'all in which case it likely is standard [Note 2] about 'bout 'bout is informal, e.g.
you are not / you have not / you did not (colloquial) y’all: you all (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’d’ve: you all would have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’dn't’ve: you all would not have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’re: you all are (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all ...
Y'all (pronounced / j ɔː l / yawl [2]) is a contraction of you and all, sometimes combined as you-all. Y'all is the main second-person plural pronoun in Southern American English , with which it is most frequently associated, [ 3 ] though it also appears in some other English varieties, including African-American English , South African ...
Y'all'dn't've should be added to the list as meaning "you all would not have". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.221.225.45 15:03, 11 January 2015 (UTC) I think this one is BS. I live in an area where "y'all" isn't all that uncommon, and I've never heard anyone come anywhere near this.
The reason it seems interesting is because in modern English 1) the second-person plural is the only plural pronoun with two forms (in some dialects) - "y'all" and "you"; and 2) the second person pronoun has the same form in nominative and accusative. The combination of 1) and 2) is why "Y'all have the craziest stuff happen to you" is acceptable.
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The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. [a] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [b]) and by their lack of the ending ‑(e)s for the third-person singular.