Your honor, My lord, Your highness, My lady all refer to another person. What are the rules behind that? The striked-out questions are answered by  . Thank you guys! Why do we use &quot;Your&quot; while sometimes use &quot;My&quot;? First, let's say, Tom is my friend. I would say &quot;My friend, would you like a coffee?&quot; It would be weird if I say &quot;Your friend, would you like a coffee?&quot; Why don't we use &quot;Your friend&quot; like &quot;Your honor&quot;? Second, I feel it looks like Apposition if I interpret &quot;Your honor&quot; as &quot;You, honor&quot;. Why do we use the possessive form? Third, say I'm a loser. I would like to coin an honorable form for other people to call me. Which is more correct, &quot;Your loser&quot; or &quot;My loser&quot;? I'm particularly interested in the usage in the United States if there's any difference.
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Why is it "your Majesty", but "my Lord"?
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I need to find out which one of these ways to refer to me and a friend in one sentence is correct?      I and John...     John and myself...     John and I...
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I know this subject was discussed for many times, but I still don't get it..  I've read in a book that we can use "I've got" instead of "I have" for possesion and it gave some examples,      I've got an English book.   I've got a red car.   So I understand that it can be used only for possession of physical objects, but I saw it used in sentences like "I've got something to say", is it correct? I hope it's not a stupid question..Thank you very much!
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Which is correct “Is that yours?” or “Is that your’s?”?  I ask because it is possessive, so I would think it would be the latter, but I typically use and see the former usage.  Are there particular cases in which one should be used instead of the other? Or is one simply correct and the other not?  This is one of the few things that still confuse me, so help is greatly appreciated.
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I am not a native English speaker, the source of my learning is books, websites and of course movies and music. In the movie — if I remember the name correctly — The Last Samurai, I heard that they said "I bid you good morning".  Can I use it as a professional way to wish good morning or is it informal? Or did I just hear it wrong?
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I was wondering if any American writers could give me some advice as to whether the following expressions/vocab are used and understood in the US:  (words in bold are the ones I'm asking about. Some words are also in inverted commas)   The living room of a house -- is this expression ok? Do you ever say "front room" or "sitting room"? If it's a massive house with a huge entertainment area, can you say "living area"? I was tickled -- is this expression ok? It means happy. "My college mate wants to hang out at my digs" - meaning my place, or college dorm. Would digs be used? Is college mate an ok expression for someone you go to college with? In the real world, do people stop on the shoulder or the hard shoulder of a highway or is either fine? Is median strip used for the partition between 2 lanes of a highway going in different directions? "He takes the piss out of every banker he meets" -- meaning he mocks them. Is this used? Can you say "I'm pissed off at him" (angry) or does it have to be: "I'm pissed at him." "I called my parents' landline (fixed home phone)." Is landline ok? "I tried on the jeans in the changing room." Is this ok or does it have to be fitting room or something else? Is the word "thingamajig" used in American English? "I can't walk on my ropey leg" -- meaning damaged or injured or tired. Can ropey be used? Security guards are surveilling the place. This verb is showing up as misspelt but I see it sometimes. Is there another spelling or verb?   13.In the real world, do people in the US use MPH or KPH as the unit of speed when driving?   Is the expression "Calm my jitters" acceptable? (calm my nerves) If you pull up to a mansion surrounded by a fence with very thick metal bars all around it, is the word "fence" appropriate or is there a better word. I think that gate would only be for a door in a fence or something? Is the expression "It cost a pretty penny" ever used in the US? Is the expression "It took every ounce of strength" used in the US? Can the word "skiff" be used in the US for a sort of flat-bottomed row boat?   Thank you so much to anyone willing to give advice about these points. Though I appreciate any input, I think it would be most useful to hear from actual American writers to avoid possible confusion.   Many thanks!  Follow up questions:  Thanks to all those who gave their very useful opinions. I have a couple more questions for anyone willing to give advice:   What do you call the area (let's say on the 10th floor) in front of an elevator door? Is there a specific word like "the landing"? When you enter a house (without a mud room), there is a space just past the front door which is not really a room, but it's like the entrance way/hallway between the front door and other rooms like the living room, study. Is this called a "hallway"? It's not a lobby, obviously as that would be for a hotel or something. Can it be the "entrance hall"? If you are using WASP-y as an adjective, do you have to write it like "WASP-y" or "WASPy". I'm guessing "waspy" hasn't become a thing yet?   Thank you!
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Is it improper to say "me and Person X"?  I always hear it said as "Person X and I", but have personally learned to say "me and Person X".  Is there a difference between the two versions and is one of them incorrect? "Person and I" just sounds more formal to me.
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I've always been taught to put myself last when referring to myself in the same sentence as others but the usage of "me and..." seems to be everywhere these days. The misuse of the word "me" instead of "I" aside, is there some new rule I haven't heard of? Shouldn't we put ourselves last regardless of the "me"/"I" usage?  Examples of "correct" usage:      My friends and I went for some ice   cream. Did you see my friends and me   at the ice cream stand?   Examples of "incorrect" usage:     Me and my friends went for some ice   cream. Did you see me and my friends   at the ice cream stand?   Note: I was also taught that the only person who could put themselves first was the queen.
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"Yours" is usually a possessive pronoun with an implicit noun. What is the implicit noun in the case of "yours sincerely"?
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When the phrase is used as an object, why so many native speakers are saying "you and I" instead of "you and me"? I'm not a native speaker but I thought "you and me" is correct. Not sure if this falls into the same category, but "Just between you and me" sounds more natural than "Just between you and I".
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I have read answers to questions like  but I couldn't find a general rule for using "you" or "yourself", "him" or "himself" that could explain things I see in some examples.  For example, I think that one normally say (according to examples I see in ):   You bring something with you. You have something in you. You have something on you. You pressed her to you.   But on the other hand one would say:   You draw attention to yourself. He killed himself. You can try it out for yourself.   As a general rule, it seems that the reflexive pronoun is used when the object is the same as the subject of the verb. But for prepositional phrases, it seems more complicated. Do some prepositions (like "with", "in", "on") always come with the accusative form of the pronoun, and some other (like "for") don't? What about "to", that seems to be followed by both in different circumstances?
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When I start a sentence with words like "someone" or "somebody", I don't know how to choose the right pronoun at the end of the sentence.  Examples:      If anybody asks you about the money, tell (Him - Her - It - Them) that it is in my bank account.     I felt that somebody was in the garden but I did not see (Him - Her - It - Them).     Speaker 1: A friend of mine helped me a lot.      Speaker 2: You should thank (Him - Her - It - Them).     Congratulations on your new baby! What's (His - Her - Its - Their) name?    Those are the cases or situations that I can think of. If you have any other different situations, please let me know.
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I have been studying Longman's English grammar book, and something is really confusing me:   We can put it and them after the verb: Give it to me. Buy them for me. Do it for me. With e.g. give and buy, we can say: Give me it. Buy me them. (But not *Do me it.) We say: Give it to John. Buy them for John. (Not *Give John it - *Buy John them.)   Why can't I say Buy John it or Give John them?  There is another post related to it that talks about the same topic: . However, the most voted answer was, indeed, useful for me, but didn't get everything clear.  What's the main rule for inverting the position and dropping the preposition?  As far as I managed to understand, if the direct object is it or them and the indirect object is a pronoun, the normal construction's placement is necessary, i.e.: Subject + Verb + Direct object + To/For + Indirect object  Is this right?
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Is anybody familiar with the use of remember as in remember me to her/him?  I think I've see it in 19th century literature.  Most likely it's archaic.  I believe the speaker is commanding someone to give somebody his regards, or say hello.  It seems awkward to hear it now as we only use remember in the imperative to remind someone of something, as in, "remember to walk the dog".  Where does this use of remember come from and is it out of use?
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I was trying to write “I was using the lecture's flow of logic”, as to say that I was following the logic that was in the lecture. But I am corrected by a spell-checker.   I tried to google it, but this leads me to another much more silly question. How do you call that “..'s” that designates ownership / association? I really did try to google it, but since “'s” is such a bad search term, and any formation for "What do you call that 's you add to designate ownership" I could think of, yielded anything but the answer I was looking for.   So my question is twofold.    What is the name of that 's thing? I guess it is not the "ownership 's" :) Is it perhaps called officially the ‘possessive s’? Is saying "lecture's" (pertaining to the lecture) valid English grammar? Or is it valid grammar but people just don't say it this way?
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I have two sentences:          John, Jane, and I went to the party.     He and I went to the party.    But I think there is a rule that says a pronoun at the end of a list should be in a special form (for "I", the special form is "me").  So, my sentence 1 and 2 should be rewritten like this:        John, Jane, and me went to the party.     He and me went to the party.    But in a lot of writing, sentences like sentence 1 and 2 are used instead of sentence 3 &amp; 4.  Is there a special rule that allows not using "me" for sentences similar to 1 and 2 for casual writing?
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My wife was discussing pudding consistency this morning and used a sentence along the lines of, "I only like the pudding you make". I blinked and asked if she really liked the pudding I make and she replied, "No, I mean the pudding you make, you know, like if I were to make some pudding". She was using the "you" in a sense of a hypothetical person, I guess, like saying, "That's what you do in a crisis" when commenting on a riot scene in the news. You're not using "you" to refer to the person you're speaking to, but rather a form of general humanity.  Anyhow, is there a term for such a usage such that you might be able to answer, "Oh, sorry, I was using 'you' in the [term] context, not referring to you specifically"?