Grammar 101: You're and Your

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https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/phil1944/blog/grammar-101-it...

A Few Simple Rules Are All You Need

There's no doubt that, in its entirety, English grammar is complex, especially for someone learning English as a second language.

But...

If you're a native English speaker and just want to avoid common grammatical errors in your writing (such as blog posts on your website) there are only a handful of rules that you need to memorize.

So this series of posts is for those who'd like to ditch the Grammarly crutch and just know what's right and what's not.

Here's the second one:

You're and Your

This one is actually very similar to it's and its.

One is an abbreviation and the other is a possessive.

All you really have to remember is that "you're" is an abbreviation of "you are".

So make that substitution, ask yourself the question "does it make sense?" and you'll get it right every time.

Some Examples

"You're the love of my life" expands to "You are the love of my life" and so is clearly correct and, equally obviously, "Your the love of my life" is not.

"Your face is that of an angel" is an example of the possessive. If you wrote "You're face is that of an angel", it would expand to "You are face is that of an angel" which doesn't make sense and so is incorrect.

So there you are. A simple rule to get it right.