The word “you” is a pronoun used to address the person or people being spoken or written to. Writers use it in dialogue, narration, persuasion, and personal expression. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “you” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences
“You mean to say that you will cross thirty without submitting to arrest?” he almost shouted.
Source: Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs
16 words, 93 characters
You cannot pass it without submitting to the humiliation of calling yourself Mr. Chamberlain.
Source: The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
14 words, 94 characters
In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 158 characters
Possibly the suggestions which I gained upon Mars, and the knowledge which I can set down in this chronicle, will aid in an earlier understanding of the mysteries of our sister planet; mysteries to you, but no longer mysteries to me.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
41 words, 233 characters
I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
52 words, 239 characters
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