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Your and You're: Do you know the difference?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Your - used for possession (e.g. That's your ball, not mine.)
You're - contraction of "you are" (e.g. You're welcome.)
- 1 decade ago
You're: a contraction of "you are"
your: possessive....
Example: You're forgetting your coat.
It's: a contraction of "it is"
Its: a possessive....
Example: It's losing all its leaves.
Their: possessive
There: a position or place
They're: a contraction of "They are"
Example: They're piling their coats over there on that table.
got it?
Source(s): Yeah... I went to Catholic school and the nuns thought vocabulary and spelling were important life skills. - Anonymous1 decade ago
Yep, but most people on this site don't!
They also mix up:
there, their, they're
two, to, too
than, then
were, where
except, accept
affect, effect
- ...Lv 71 decade ago
your, indictaes when you're talking to someone and referring to them
you're also denoted as YOU ARE means you are telling something to a person of what they are etc.
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- Who's sarcastic?Lv 61 decade ago
yeah. do you know the difference between their, there and they're? what about it's and its? I know, do you?