"YOUR" (yr, yôr, yr; yr when unstressed)
adj. The possessive form of you.
Used as a modifier before a noun: your boots; your accomplishments.
A person's; one's: The light switch is on your right.
Informal. Used with little or no sense of possession to indicate a type familiar to the listener: your basic three-story frame house.
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"YOU'RE" (yr; yr when unstressed)
Contraction of you are.
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this has bothered me since jr high and people would sign my yearbook: "your a grate guy", "your realy funny", etc
adj. The possessive form of you.
Used as a modifier before a noun: your boots; your accomplishments.
A person's; one's: The light switch is on your right.
Informal. Used with little or no sense of possession to indicate a type familiar to the listener: your basic three-story frame house.
[versus]
"YOU'RE" (yr; yr when unstressed)
Contraction of you are.
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this has bothered me since jr high and people would sign my yearbook: "your a grate guy", "your realy funny", etc
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Re: okay, I'll bite
Thu, January 22, 2004 - 1:23 PMI'd have used quotation marks in your definitions. "Contraction of you are" makes no sense, whereas "Contraction of 'you are'" does.
Yes, the eternal scourge of homonym confusion. We've been discussing just that topic in "Word Freaks". Perhaps I'll post a listing there... -
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Re: okay, I'll bite
Thu, January 22, 2004 - 1:36 PMtouche.
Those definitions were copied and pasted from dictionary.com. I just put the words themselves in caps and quotes so they would stand out.
Supposably I am the most smartest guy, in the world. And i always don't screw up my grammar when talk and write.
hee hee!
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