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How do you be?


alejandrovig May 04, 2020 07:42 PM

How do you be?
 
hi!
can you please help me?
i saw this sentence written on quora:
”how do you be quietly confident?”
is that sentence ok?
can i say “how do you be”?
i saw on google that it’s sometimes used.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-be-quietly-confident

Rusty May 04, 2020 09:15 PM

The question is fine the way it is written.
It's an open-ended question (can't be answered with a simple 'yes' or 'no'). It asks about how something can be done. In this case, it asks, "How does a confident person not have to say that they're confident?"

This assumes that the 'you' in the question is impersonal (the speaker isn't speaking to any particular person). It could also be written using other impersonal forms: 'How does one' or 'How do they'.

To answer the question, one/you must describe how someone could be confident without stating that they are.



Your proposal, without the 'how something can be done' phrase, works, but it is considered slang. It means the same thing as "How do you do?" or "How are you?"

alejandrovig May 09, 2020 01:05 PM

ok, thanx ����

poli May 10, 2020 08:23 PM

This may help.
As a command you can say, be confident!
A suitable answer may be, how do be confident?

alejandrovig May 11, 2020 06:58 AM

ok, thanx


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