The phrase "asserting you" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the act of affirming or stating something about someone, but it lacks clarity and proper usage.
Example: "I am asserting you as the leader of this project" does not make sense in standard English.
Alternatives: "affirming you" or "declaring you".
He's not as bad as New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan, who gave another grumpy interview on Thursday, this time to The National Catholic Register, asserting: "You think it's going to stop with this?
That is an example of paraleipsis, the rhetorical technique of pointing something out by asserting you will not point it out, often preceded by the phrase "not to mention".
In his closing speech to the Conservative conference in Birmingham, the prime minister will also try to broaden the terms of an NHS debate that often seems unwinnable for the Tories by asserting "you can only have a strong NHS if you have a strong economy".
This seems straightforward in the case of (b): one can detach "You shouldn't work in a bar" from (b) by asserting "You (do) want to get drunk every evening".
In (a), it is an embedded indicative, ascribing a desire to you which is why the consequent can be detached by asserting "You want to get drunk every evening".
He also defiantly asserted, "You control your English grammar structure".
An ominous road marker asserts, "You'll never leave," which is morbidly accurate.
"If you like peanut butter and chocolate," the ads assert, "you'll love peanut butter and Snickers".
Larry Eagleburger, the heavyset, slow-moving former secretary of state, asserted, "You know, our aircraft is a slow, lumbering thing".
In the eighties, before copyright laws were asserted, you could chop up those James Brown recordings inside a sampler and make a hip-hop record.
Chaney goads his Temple players but does not exude the meanness Knight does, although yesterday Chaney asserted: "You ask my kids.
