When ‘ye’ became ‘you’

Q: Robert Herrick uses “ye” during most of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” but switches to “you” at the end. Are both ”ye” and “you” in the subjective case in the poem? A: Yes, both “ye” and “you” are subjects in “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” a 17th-century poem […] The post When ‘ye’ became ‘you’ first appeared on Grammarphobia.