Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Your / You’re Your / You’re

My friends on Facebook, many of which speak English as their first and only language, always get this wrong and it’s really frustrating. Although I must say, I used to make this mistake too.

Your = Possessive

“Your” means “belonging to you”.

e.g. “This is your jacket”

“You’re” = “You are”

e.g. “You’re the best friend I have ever had”

NB When you see people write: “This is you’re jacket”, they are saying “This is you are jacket”. You can see the mistake! Don’t forget, in English, the apostrophe often indicates an abbreviation

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