Re: Verbal Inflection for Formality

Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:

>"_Your_ Majesty" is, indeed, treated as if it were a replacement
>for "You" (as you said); but "Majesty" (_without_ "Your") requires
>third-person-singular agreement of verbs, whether it is spoken _to_
>the Sovereign or _about_ the Sovereign. Same for "Highness" as
>opposed to "Your Highness".
Even with "your" it requires the third person singular:

Does Your Majesty require anything else?
Your Majesty is looking well today.

One would not say "Your Majesty are looking well today."  After all,
the subject of the sentence is a noun, not the second person pronoun.

Charlie