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Generic you
From Teflpedia
Generic you is pronoun usage involving the usage of the second person pronoun set as a generic pronoun to refer to a generic person.
- subject pronoun: you
- object pronoun: you
- dependent possessive determiner: your
- independent possessive determiner: yours
- reflexive pronoun: yourself
e.g:
- Q: “What do you need if you want to take something back to a shop?"
- A: “You need a receipt.”
In formal English registers the pronoun set based on generic one is often preferred.
English language learners may fail to disambiguate between the different senses of you, and respond to generic you with the first person singular “I….”
