Can everyone who posts on here please read this?

Question

Does anyone know the difference between your and you're? Please, please, please learn the difference! It drives me crazy seeing all the people making this mistake.

Your - of or relating to you or yourself or yourselves especially as possessor or possessors. (ex. Is that your dog?)

You're - is a contraction of "you are." (ex. You're making me angry.)

Answer 1

YOUR answer is entirely correct, meaning YOU'RE right!

I have gotten to the point now, that I just skip over misspelled questions because they drive me crazy. That's why "check spelling" was invented in the techno world, and a simple spelling class was suggested in the education world.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Answer 2

I feel the exact same way.

A generation of people who cannot differentiate the difference between those two words is absolutely scary.
Something horrible is going to happen in the near future, or to our generation at least.

If the internet was revolutionized and included a way to allow everyone to virtually meet in a "meeting zone," I'd sock everyone who spells simple words wrong in the throat.

God help our souls...

Answer 3

Your'e so right. There are tons of other words that people use incorrectly---my pet peeve "where's it at?" I was always taught to leave the preposition off of the end. I'm sure we could come up with a rathery lengthly list.

Answer 4

Hey joppledopper

I agree....another one is 'it's' and 'its'. It's amazing to see how many people confuse both. Someone is even keeping track of the mistake on different websites:
http://www.fred.net/kathy/its.html

Answer 5

I thought these mistakes were typing mistakes. Never occur to me that it would be lack of knowledge.

Answer 6

If it drives you crazy, disgregard it when you see it. You're not the grammar police.

Answer 7

that's the difference above...*what you wrote*

Answer 8

sounds like YOUR a little irritated