A Pet Peeve of Cam's

[misscam]

DANDYWILBER'S FREE TUTORIAL ON HOW TO TYPE/SPELL/SPEAK CORRECTLY! Or: How to sound mildly intelligent!

When to properly use your or you're (you are)
YOURyour adj. The possessive form of you 1. Used as a modifier before a noun: your boots; your accomplishments 2. A person's; one's: The light switch is on your right So, what does it mean? Your is a word that states that the possession of some object or abstract idea is in the possession of you. The hat is not you're hat. It is YOUR hat. As you're cannot be used in place of your, the same is true for the reverse of this lesson. Your cannot be used in a sentence when the meaning of the word should be "you are," such as you are not very intellectual or you are in possession of the grammar skills of a 4-year old. This is where YOU'RE comes in, not your. See the right side, YOUR right side (of the computer screen) for instructions on how to use YOU'RE. Some examples: This is your pink flamingo. Our Lady Peace is your favorite band. Please, stop your car and run into oncoming traffic.	YOU'REyou're Contraction of you are. contraction n. The act or process of shortening 1. The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is. Huh? In short, you're means you are. We do all know what "you" and "are" mean, don't we? I should surely hope so! One uses you're when they wish to speak regarding a person. Some examples: You're not a very nice individual. You're coming with me this evening. You're not serious, are you?
Post this tutorial in your journal!!

Thank you.

Comments

[puredeadthingy.livejournal.com]

That grammar mistake really gets my goat. This time, I'm hanging on to my milk-making animal.
*pats goat*

Feed the Peeve!

[git-the-goddess.livejournal.com]

And show it to all the fan-girls!
They tend to scream when you do that...

There's just something about reading the sentence "Is this you are scarf?" which makes that little X at the top corner of the page start screaming "Hit me! hit me!"

[cenire.livejournal.com]

That one drives me insane.

[baronmind.livejournal.com]

I love it! I cannot stand people who can't grasp this concept -- and since my chatbot has been discovered by a bunch of 13-year-old AOLers, I get to see it repeated ad nauseum in the chat logs.

[forceofhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yes! Yes! Yes!
*Hurriedly prints off to give to her sister and other netspeakers*

THANK YOU!

[perepip.livejournal.com]

Thank Eru for you, Miss Cam. This is a rather huge pet peeve of my own. "Your" is possessive. "You're" is a contraction.

GET IT RIGHT PEOPLE!

~Rosie

Yay!

[buttercup87.livejournal.com]

*applaudes*
Another, possibly worse, pet peeve of mine is There/Their/They're.

[the-factionlair.livejournal.com]

Well done Miss Cam, I've already added it to my new blog. This is a perfect example which I should show my brother and the vast majority of people on my MSN who use text-talk (or netspeak depending on where you live)
Thank You

The Faction's Lord