are you
Checking on someone
Are you is the standard construction for forming questions with the second-person pronoun: Are you coming tonight?
It also introduces indirect questions and conditional statements: I wonder if you are ready.
In casual speech, are you often reduces to a clipped sound or inverts to you are with rising intonation.
- amI-verb for existence
- isPresent-tense existence verb
- beingExisting as something
- existHave actual being
- identityWho someone is
who · person · feeling · okay · alright · ready · sure · certain · for real · there · still there · out there · here · real · alive · awake · listening · serious
- yes/no questionsclosed questions, true or false, is it, shall we, does it
- question wordswhat, when, where, which, who