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Hi my name is Rebecca and in today's lesson, we're going to be talking about some more commonly confused words
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These kind of words in English are called homonyms and
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A homonym is a word that sounds the same as another word but it has a different meaning very often.
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It also has a d ifferent spelling okay so let's start with the ones we're talking about today which are these two
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you're and
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Your
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You can see that when I said them they sounded basically the same
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But they are very different and lots of students do make mistakes especially when
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They're writing fast
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But you really have to differentiate
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Because these are fairly basic words and if you made a mistake like that on a test or on your Ielts or on your
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Toefl exam it would not be considered a good error to make because there are really basic words so try to get this
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The meaning clear in your mind and the spelling clear as well.
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okay? so let's examine these now the first one you're is a contraction
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That means it's a combination of [Tours] you and are when we combine them, we make the contraction you're
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Let's think of some examples now You're a really good friend
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You're
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American
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You're a great student
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okay?
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In each of these examples, we were really saying you are
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But we contracted it when
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We're speaking it's a little more informal and we can say you're alright? the second one is the word your
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Your [about] why [old] you are is a possessive adjective
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which refers to something that belongs to you
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This is your book
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He's your friend, this is your house okay? in other words this house
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belongs to you, that friend is your friend, okay? so these are the two words
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Be really careful not to mix them up and what
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We're Going to do now is to have a little quiz to see if in fact you can differentiate
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If you can differentiate means if you can tell the difference okay? so the first one is you're from Brazil
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Aren't you?
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You're from Brazil
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Which you're am I using in that sentence. Is it this one or this one?
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do you know?
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Okay?, you're right it's the first one You're from Brazil means you are from Brazil
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Okay?, good, Let's take the next one You're a very kind person
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You're a very kind person
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Which one am I looking at now?
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Which is right?
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do you know?
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okay?
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Good again. it's the first one You are a very kind person
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okay
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Let's take a third one your essay is
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fantastic
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Your essay is fantastic
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Which one are we using now?
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This one or this one?
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All right? it's the second one this time
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We're saying your essay meaning the essay that belongs to you is great
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okay?
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Another wxample I can't understand what you're saying
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I'm sorry i can't understand what you're saying
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Which you're are, We using now this one
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This One?
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What do you think?
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Okay, it's the first one because when i say it I can't understand what you're Saying
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Meaning what you are saying
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I can't understand what you are saying all right
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Okay, now if you can grab a piece of paper I have one last
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One which will be sort of like a final review and we're going to come back in a second and give you that one okay?
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See you in a moment
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okay so now to review let me give you a sentence and you could write it down okay?
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I see, you're wearing your favorite shirt again
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I see, you're wearing your favorite shirt again
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Take a Minute to write that Down I'll say it again
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I see you're wearing
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your favorite shirt again, while you finish writing that down I'm going to write it on four okay?
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Okay, is that what you are let's review I see you are wearing
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You are wearing
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Your
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Meaning belonging to you
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your favorite shirt again. Is that what you have? if you do? then you master these two words
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If you made a mistake
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Don't worry just concentrate a little bit more do a little more practice write out some more examples and
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You really have to be careful with these towards because even native English speakers
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Sometimes make a mistake when they're writing these words so when you're looking on the Internet you might see mistakes
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With these two very very common so be really Careful about that okay?
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One point about my word favorite here why, I spelt it Is more of an american spelling
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The British spelling would include a u like This f a v, o u
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r i
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t e, okay? so if you have any more questions about this lesson or anything else in English please feel free to join our
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