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learn the rule: your / you're
- your is a possessive adjective, indicating ownership of something
- That is your sock.
- Where is your potato?
- you're is a contraction (combination) of you and are
- Do you know what you're doing?
- You're stupid.
- The two are not interchangeable.
- Getting it wrong makes you look stupid. And ugly.
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Anon said I think teh Grammar Nazis need to go through some sorta Nuremburg trial. If your that much of an elitist, gtfo. As long as u can reid it, gtfoi. 
Jen89 said Revised: ...lack of awareness from some people who.....
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Grammar_snob89 said Also, I hate it when people end sentences in prepositions! For example: "Where are you at?" should be "Where are you?" because obviously the word at is a preposition.
Rallory said But since the "it" is the object, you are just showing possesion, so it would be "it's". It's not the contraction, such as the one I just used. Right?
Sarah B. said Can we please disuss the use of a word that does not exist: nother. It disturbs me to no end to CONSTANTLY hear people sat, "That's a whole nother issue." Seriously, people, you sound SO stupid when you say that as if it were proper English.
Josephine C said How about the whole there/their/they're conundrum? It irritates me to distraction when I see these words used incorrectly!
W said No one has yet mentioned eating healthfully, as opposed to healthy. Food is healthful, not healthy. People are healthy (hopefully).
Farmboy said What about " I took its banana" Should it be " I took it's banana"?
Corkee said The first school at which I taught was a co-educational boarding school. There was a sign giving directions to the dormitories: boy's to the left, girl's to the right. Had I been a parent would I have written a cheque for $25,000 to have my child educated at this establishment?
M. Cranberry said We have several new words here in Bermuda...
axe/ask
pacifically/specifically
cut/cot
beer/bear
Jen89 said Revised: ...lack of awareness from some people who.....
(a tiny phone keyboard is not made for such lengthy statements)
Grammar_snob89 said Also, I hate it when people end sentences in prepositions! For example: "Where are you at?" should be "Where are you?" because obviously the word at is a preposition.
Rallory said But since the "it" is the object, you are just showing possesion, so it would be "it's". It's not the contraction, such as the one I just used. Right?
Sarah B. said Can we please disuss the use of a word that does not exist: nother. It disturbs me to no end to CONSTANTLY hear people sat, "That's a whole nother issue." Seriously, people, you sound SO stupid when you say that as if it were proper English.
Josephine C said How about the whole there/their/they're conundrum? It irritates me to distraction when I see these words used incorrectly!
W said No one has yet mentioned eating healthfully, as opposed to healthy. Food is healthful, not healthy. People are healthy (hopefully).
Farmboy said What about " I took its banana" Should it be " I took it's banana"?
» Vanessa83 replied @Farmboy: Would you ever say "I took it is banana"? Right. So it's "I took its banana".
Corkee said The first school at which I taught was a co-educational boarding school. There was a sign giving directions to the dormitories: boy's to the left, girl's to the right. Had I been a parent would I have written a cheque for $25,000 to have my child educated at this establishment?
» Nope replied when using they term boy's they mean boy's dorm, in which case boys (dorm) would be incorrect.
M. Cranberry said We have several new words here in Bermuda...
axe/ask
pacifically/specifically
cut/cot
beer/bear
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