One-part sentence, where the main member is the verb of the present or future tense, in the 2nd person and unit number is a generalized-personal sentence.
Who did it, or all, any and every
It can be without a subject, since the verb takes on all its functions. The action that he designates can be attributed to any person, since the subject of the action is understood in a generalized way: you can mentally substitute "everything" , "everyone" or "any" . Thus, generalized-personal and differs from indefinite-personal, when the subject is substituted for the concrete - “someone” . It is used most often as an expression of general judgments, maxims, often embodied in proverbs or sayings: " If you don't sweat in August, then you won't get warm in April either . "
When hiding behind a generalization
If a verb denotes an action constantly occurring with the speaker, these are also most often generalized-personal sentences. Examples: " From morning to night, you will come back, get tired, fall down, but the dream does not go"; "You look into the sky, draw axes, seek time for a hidden pulse"; “You won’t scare dusty fish by accidentally slamming the door”; "A century would stroke for you at least not hands, so shirts"; "And do not get away from everyone, like a clam in a shell"; "Do not listen only, sorry, you, señor Vivaldi"; "Get off, and the train will rush everyone else to where happiness is."
As a means of artistic expression
Very often, a generalized-personal sentence is necessary for the authors to describe nature, state of mind, etc., since it gives the perception of the text an additional emotional and graphic effect. For example: " It’s good in the summer: you get down from the heat in the subway, you reach the pear"; "If you love - forgive him, no matter how he pissed off"; "Though kill, I can understand absolutely nothing."
we
The verb of the 1st person plural also occurs. the numbers are seized. moods. For example : "Forgive him, he is right, poor thing"; "My age, wipe yourself, you deserve it."
They
The generalized-personal sentence uses the verb and in the form of a 3rd person pl. the numbers are seized. moods. For example: " When they walk in happiness, they don’t remember their labors."
Pronoun and Duplex
We usually see generalized-personal sentences as one-part, they inform about actions and conditions that are not related to a particular person. However, there are also two-part sentences when the subject in the form of a personal pronoun denotes a generalized person. For example: " How often do they not suspect what they are doing"; "We either scatter stones, or collect them again"; "And everything flows according to a long-standing scheme: some stick out with" AC / DC ", others create poems with the refrain" Oh you goy esi. "
Advice or order
Quite often there is a generalized-personal sentence with a verb in the imperative mood. For example : "Drink at the table, but do not drink under the pillar." It can also work as a subordinate part of a sentence, gaining stability of a combination, and losing a subordinate when the relation of an action to a generalized person is erased or almost disappears: “ Wherever you look, there is ugliness everywhere”; " Well, look for the wind in the field"; " Eye poke out - such a night today."
Afterword
A generalized-personal sentence comes into the language precisely when an action becomes more important than a person. The aphorism helps such constructions to become long-livers, because the action, as it were, is of common use: it is close and understandable to everyone and everyone, but does not belong to anyone specifically.