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Shakespeare’s Grammar – What art thou on about?
 
Most languages have a familiar form and a polite form of ‘you’. InShakespeare’s time that was also true of English. Thou was the familiar form of you. When we use thou, the verb attached to itchanges.For example:
Thou art = you are Are you…? = Art thou…?Thou hast = you have Have you…? = Hastthou…?Thou dost = you do Do you…? = Dost thou…?
‘You’ was the polite form used when speaking to strangers or social superiorsand is also used for the plural form.
Change the following sentences into Elizabethan grammar:1.Who are you?2.Have you been here long?3.[write your own question]Write out the following quotations, and change the words in brackets intoElizabethan English.1.(Do you) think because (you are) virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?2. How (do you) like this tune?3.(Have you) forgot yourself?
 Thee was used when the person was the object* of the sentence.
e.g. I give thee an apple NOT I give
thou
an apple.
*
 The person is the
object 
of the sentence when something is being
done
 
to
them.
e.g. You gave me an apple (‘you’ is the subject because ‘you’ is doing thegiving)I gave you an apple (‘you’ is the object because ‘you’ is being given theapple)
1. The girls wish to dance with _______.2. I am making a drawing of ________.3. Poor fool, I can only pity _______.4. Hast ______ the letter I gave you?
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