{"id":123,"date":"2014-04-14T11:54:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2017-03-04T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T02:25:36","slug":"the-difference-between-your-and-youre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-your-and-youre\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between your and you’re"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n TLDR:<\/strong> Your<\/em> is the possessive, you’re<\/em> is the contraction of ‘you are’.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I often see these two mixed up while reading posts in social media and, depressingly, sometimes in news posts too.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re (contraction)\u2014you are<\/p>\n

\n \u2018Jeeves! You\u2019re just the person I was looking for! Come here and help me with my jacket!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018I hope you\u2019re not going to wear that to the party, Ruth!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

‘You do realise, don’t you, Harry, that you’re Undesirable Number One? You can’t just walk into Hogwarts. You’re a wanted man!’<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Your (possessive)\u2014belonging to an individual being addressed; a person in general; also used in formal titles<\/p>\n

\n \u2018Yours is not a face I would readily find attractive.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s strong enough to put hairs on your tongue,\u2019 Holly promised.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Your Majesty, may I introduce to you the delegation from France.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Lots of love, your dear friend George.\u2019<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Used together in a sentence, the two would be used thusly:<\/p>\n

\n ‘Charles, you’re<\/strong> going to be late if you don’t catch your<\/strong> usual train to work.’<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Well, I was going to take your<\/strong> car, Mum, but you’re<\/strong> always so pedantic about the position of the seat, so I decided to take Dad’s car instead.’<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Stop right there!’ George’s mother called. ‘You’re<\/strong> going to have an accident. Tie up your<\/strong> shoelaces right now!’<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now go out there and use your<\/em> and you’re<\/em> properly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever I see these two mixed up, I throw a raging tanty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}