Olga
One more question: Can I use "How about yourself?" instead of "How about you?" Is it correct? I saw this once in a book but never heard.
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"Yourself" is a reflexive pronoun.When you say "How about yourself?" you are pretty much reversing the question from you back to the person who has asked first, as in “How does the same question apply to you?” “How do you apply the same question to you?” It sounds a bit odd.It would be more appropriate in an in informal conversation and perhaps less proper in formal settings.This would thus work better in a more colloquial setting like between friends.However, it can work as a very short phrase: "Yourself?""How about you?" is grammatically correct and works in both formal and informal settings.
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MoHssine
Normally a sentence should have a verb to be formally correct. The statement" how about you?" has no verb. I is bluffing.
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