A grammatical anomaly (for me, at least) that changes you are to you is.

This would rarely happen, but adding an adjective before “you,” changes the verb’s conjugation.

For example: Wonderful you is in the picture.

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We all have our own impossible-to-remember words. What are yours?

I always forget what verisimilitude means (hopefully not after this post, though).

What words have you looked up repeatedly, but can’t retain?

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Why speeding isn’t a sin and not speeding is: The authorities want us to break the speed limit.

Imagine the trouble you’d cause if you and several friends all went the speed limit next to each other at rush hour.

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Ungrammatical but not unnatural lyrics. Or as Paul McCartney put it, “Wronger but cuter.”

Ever been annoyed by the McCartney lyric, “…the world in which we live in”?

David Crystal offers a bit of explanatory analysis.

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Is it discourteous to research someone online before you go on a first date with them?

I read the opinion somewhere that it’s tacky, if not altogether ungentlemanly, to Google a girl before a date.

I disagree. You?

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