Word Usage – Using ‘You’ When Referring to a Specific Group

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How do people cope with the horrors happening around the world if
you're constantly thinking about it?

Is it ok? To use people or any other group and then using you, which is a pronoun you can use to refer to people in general?

Best Answer

You should be consistent within a phrase or sentence, if you are referring to the same group. Either:

How do people cope with .... if they're constantly...
or
How do you [people] cope with .... if you're constantly....

(The word people is optional as an appositive in the second example.)

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