Your vs You're Meaning, Difference, Grammar, Pronunciation with Example English Sentences

49,033 views ・ 2021-11-10

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Hello Funny. Your a great teacher.
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Wrong!
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Hello guys. My name is Fanny.
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and in this video I'm gonna tell you about the  most common English mistake in the universe.
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Now even native speakers make that mistake.
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My mother makes that mistake.
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And to be honest, sometimes I do.
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Its not so much a speaking mistake. It's a writing mistake.
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It's actually to write the possessive  adjective 'your' instead of
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the contraction 'you're' from 'you are'.
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This is the most common English mistake
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But you need to fix it if you want to speak proper English.
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Okay, so let's take a look at a  few example sentences together.
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"Your daughter is pretty."
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So 'your daughter'.
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This is the possessive adjective of 'you'.
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Whose daughter?
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Yours.
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Okay?
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So the daughter belongs to you.
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That's a possessive adjective.
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So the sentence is correct.
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In the second sentence,
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"You're a pretty daughter."
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See the difference?
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Now this is not a possessive adjective.
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This is the verb 'to be'.
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But it's the contraction, so it's "You are a pretty daughter."
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and the contraction is "You're a pretty daughter."
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The problem here is that 'you're' - possessive adjectives and
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'you're' - contraction of the verb 'to be'
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have the exact same sound in  many English-speaking regions.
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Okay it's very similar.
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So when we speak, it's the same.
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People don't hear the difference.
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So the very important thing  is to write it properly.
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And there are so many spelling mistakes.
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If we look at the third sentence:
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"Your a nice person."
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What do you think?
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Is the sentence right or wrong?
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Well it's wrong.
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"Your a nice person."
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"You are a nice person."
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So it's the verb 'to be'.
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Okay, so it's not 'your'.
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This is the possessive adjective
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and it should be "you're"- you apostrophe 're'.
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Okay?
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I hope you understand the difference between the
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possessive adjective 'your' and the verb 'to be' contracted so "you're".
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Okay so spelling is key here.
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And when you speak English, people don't hear the difference.
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so it's fine
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but it's important to know how to write it and in fact if you look at Facebook
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pages or Twitter accounts, even from native speakers,
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you will see this mistake.
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Don't hesitate to correct native speakers. Okay?
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Everybody should stop making that huge mistake.
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I hope you now have a better understanding  and you will not make that mistake again.
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Thank you very much for watching my video.
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