Using pronoun after conjunction where the subject is the same?

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When you're hungry, and have something in your freezer, you eat it.

When you're hungry, and you have something in your freezer, you eat it.

Is it okay to not use you in this sentence? If the subject is the same, is it okay not to use pronouns after the conjunction?

Not much in it, really, though personally I'd retain "you" in the second coordinate: it's perfectly natural and it doesn't represent an exact repetition of the subject in "you're" in the first coordinate. — BillJ, Commented Feb 4, 2017 at 18:25

JMP · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-15 14:49:44Z

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One can strip all the you's from that and it still only has one meaning, who is doing the eating doesn't need to be defined.

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-13 12:38:13Z

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Yes, it's OK. I just looked up an explanation and discovered that there's a name for this: conjunction reduction. See https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/51930/i-verb-and-am-rest-of-sentence/51955#51955

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answered Feb 4, 2017 at 22:30

Andy Schweig

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Except that nobody calls it that! It's simply a coordination of VPs: When[ you're hungry], and [have something in your freezer], you eat it.
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