English Needs a Second-Person Genitive Plural

“Your”? …No, this is plural. When you are addressing multiple children, and you want to indicate that the item belongs to all of them, it had better be clear the first time.

Your guys’

You guys’s

“All y’all’s” …. Maybe in the South.

Anyone?

6 thoughts on “English Needs a Second-Person Genitive Plural

    1. Jennifer Mugrage's avatar Jennifer Mugrage

      “+energetic flailing gesture”
      “You guys need to pick up your” (twirls finger over head like a cowboy twirling a lasso) “… Legos.”

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