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You is always capitalized at the start of a sentence.
You is often capitalized when referring to God.
The practice of capitalizing pronouns referring to God originated at a time when pronouns referring to kings were capitalized. This practice has continued in the case of God up to the present day, but not consistently. The New American Standard Bible, for ...
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You'll have to ask the author.
Grammatically, however, that is a restrictive relative pronoun that refers to "the sector S", and the relative clause means that sector S is continuous on the closure of sector S.
Knowing nothing about math, I can't tell you what this means, but that interpretation makes no semantic sense.
Because this makes no sense to me, ...
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No rules beyond the rule of personal preference. Some folks like to indicate whether the person or animal is male or female. Why? Because humans are curious about such things. How many normal human beings wouldn't ask about a newborn dressed in yellow or green Is it a boy or a girl? Only the hopelessly PC who think that it's somehow unfair to burden a fellow ...
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It's the city.
In the preceeding sentence city is clearly the subject and the other nouns mentioned (side, mountain, part, pile) are only there to describe aspects of the city.
It follows that, in the beginning of the next sentence, it must refer to the city:
The fire had gone out of it [the city]
Grammatically, fire is the subject of that clause. ...
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Given that this type of entity is rare in our world, no pronouns of the type you seek have arisen. The phenomenon has not been of enough consequence to human history to warrant the development of such pronouns. As for those entities which do exist in such a form, we have little if any reason to emphasize the dual genders in the personal pronoun. We use "it" ...
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As far as I know, only at the beginning of a sentence. Elsewhere in a sentence, the Y is lower case, y.
You may come and go as you please.
He told me, "You may come and go as you please."
I told you that you could come and go as you please, didn't I?
He has no idea that I came and went as I pleased; you do, however.
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Contracts sometimes capitalize You when referring to a signatory to the contract:
Any time you see a capitalized word in a contract, it indicates that for the purposes of the contract, that capitalized term has a specific definition. You can find that definition where the capitalized term first appears in the contract, usually in quotes.
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