Monday, July 18, 2011

your, you're

Your means belonging to you--
Here is your ice cream.
Is this your coat?

Yours refers to the thing that belongs to you--
Is that ice cream yours?
This one is mine, and that one is yours.

You're is a short, informal form (contraction) of "you are"--
You're going to like this ice cream.
If you're going out, would you stop at the store?

Now that you know that, you can say--
"You're going to like your ice cream."

Not to be confused with "ewer", a jug or pot type of thing--
She admired the old ewer in the antique store.
Note--"yore" ( rhymes with your ) means past or long ago--
In days of yore knights fought in jousting tournaments. 

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