How to write like shakespeare

Speak in iambic pentameter.

Shakespeare frequently used iambic pentameter to write dialogue for the more important characters in his plays. To speak in iambic pentameter, use ten syllable lines broken up into five “foots.” In a foot, the first syllable is not stressed, and the second is stressed.

HELLO = = GOODBYE

Good morning, Mrs. Patterson. God ye good den, Mistress Wolfe.

Shakespeare’s Pronouns

The first person — I, me, my, and mine — remains basically the same. The second-person singular (you, your, yours), however, is translated like so: “Thou” for “you” (nominative, as in “Thou hast risen.”) “Thee” for “you” (objective, as in “I give this to thee.”)

in the past, the second person singular form of the present tense of “have”: thou hast (= you have)

The Old English greeting “Ƿes hāl” Hello! Ƿes hāl! ( singular)

The singular of “you” is “thou”. “Thy” is “your” as the singular possessive pronoun. “Thee” is the singular direct object for “you“. “Thine” is the equivalent of “yours” (or “your” if the following word began with a vowel).

Ye is an old-fashioned, poetic, or religious word for you when you are talking to more than one person. Ye is sometimes used in imitation of an old written form of the word ‘the.

Yes is a very old word. It entered English before 900 and comes from the Old English word gese loosely meaning “be it.” Before the 1600s, yes was often used only as an affirmative to a negative question, and yea was used as the all-purpose way to say “yes.”

SYNONYMS. all right, alright, very well, of course, by all means, sure, certainly, absolutely, indeed, affirmative, in the affirmative, agreed, roger. Scottish, Northern English archaic aye. aye aye. informal yeah, yah, yep, yup, uh-huh, okay, OK, okey-dokey, okey-doke.