Are. The
second-person singular and rst-, second, and third-person plural
presenttense of
“be”: we are you (singular or plural) are they are You are reading.”
Also see
agreement, auxiliary, conjugation, number, and
person.Are, our. In some speech
dialects these words sound more like each other than in others. But they are still commonly confused by writers who might not say or hear them as the same. The rst is a
verb form of “be” (second-person singular and all forms of the plural
present tense), while the second is a
possessive pronoun (
rst- person plural): Are our homes in danger we asked.”
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