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I am not bringing up the discussion on the frequent mix-up of these two, which I think has already been covered. Rather I am wondering whether anyone has devised/found a way to explain the difference between them to people who are not very knowledgeable in grammatical parlay, so that they will remember it (like a mnemonic device). My co-worker keeps getting them mixed up in printed public notices, though I have explained about possessives and verbs time and time again. He says he can't remember which is which and which is for what! Any help out there?
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just tell him to keep the apostrophe out of "his" possessive pronouns.
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you / you're , so that they will remember it (like a mnemonic device). ----------------------- If you're writing it you're, you are writing it right. You're welcome. Your pal, wow
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If you're doing it, do it with an apostrophe, but if you own it, your apostrophe is redundant.
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Marianna, I'm glad you're here!
To take tsuwm's suggestion a bit further (his original post on the subject was a little more detailed than this one), what about something along the lines of: What is yours, isn't ours. (Leaving 'you're' to the process of elimination.)
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If you can replace it with "you are" then it's "you're"
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If you can replace it with "you are" then it's "you're" Exactly. And I could have sworn I posted something to a similar effect yesterday, but apparently the AWAD server sprites found that message a very tasty treat ~ Something to the effect that once someone pointed out the obvious to me, I've never forgotten it since!
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Just as FB said----If you can replace it with "you are" then it is You're and if it belongs to you---it is yours. (your car, your house, your dog etc---but on the other hand----"you're going to the car, you're going to the house, you're feeding the dog, etc"
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Fiberbabe, I'm wondering if those server sprites are not Ænigma's spawn? ...The point here is if Marianna's colleague doesn't understand grammar, it's no use discussing it with him. Just make it simple.
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make it simple
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