Grammar Zone | Your and You're

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss the differences between your and you're. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are back in the grammar zone and social. Today we're looking at. 00:00:13 Jack Two homophones that are commonly confused, especially in writing, and that because they sound the same, so it doesn't matter when you're speaking, but when you're writing, they're actually spelled differently. It's your and your. 00:00:30 Jack And so let's start with YOUR your what? What's the part of what part of speech is it? What does it mean? And can you give us an example? 00:00:41 Xochitl Your is possessive. It indicates possession of something. So is that your breakfast? Is that your bottle of water? Like you're asking someone. Does that belong to you? You know, and so. 00:01:00 Xochitl It just indicates possession, essentially. That's why OER. 00:01:02 Jack Right and. 00:01:04 Jack For the subject would be you, you, your it was like I my he, his, she, her. You. You're like that it's just it's just the possessive pronoun for the pronoun you you know. 00:01:14 Xochitl Yeah, you. Yes. 00:01:19 Jack What about your YOU apostrophe re? 00:01:24 Xochitl UMYOU apostrophe RE litter is a contraction of U&R which are two different 2 words. They're combined together with an apostrophe, so a lot of people get confused because in English we also use apostrophes to show possession like you would say Jack apostrophe S jacks. 00:01:45 Xochitl This Jacks laptop, so I think it gets confusing for students because YOU apostrophe RE. It seems like ohh there's an apostrophe there, it must indicate possession, but it doesn't. Apostrophes are often used in contractions which are when you combine two separate words and make them one word in the English language. 00:02:07 Xochitl And this is 1 staple of native speakers is that we speak with a lot of contractions which can be confusing for students and non-native speakers as well. 00:02:17 Jack Yes. Yeah, that's you made some great points there. 00:02:22 Jack I think the the best way to to kind of tell if if it's wrong is to break it into two words. So if you're saying like is this your computer and you spell it, YOU apostrophe RE separate those and say you are is this UR computer. 00:02:41 Jack And then you think about that sentence makes no sense at all. 00:02:44 Jack Right. Is this you are computer? No. It would you say? Is this your computer? YOUR because it's a possession. Not meaning you R. And so I think that I don't know. That's how I've always done it. You know, just if you separate the just take away the contraction. 00:03:04 Jack And then if the sentence makes sense, you're OK. If the sentence is crazy like. 00:03:11 Jack You know you are. He is sitting in you are seat, you know. Then you know that something is wrong. No, he is sitting in your seat. Then it's then it's correct. 00:03:24 Xochitl Yeah, I think that's probably the best way to remember. As Jack said, just separate them out. And yeah, if this makes sense to you, if you have any other grammar questions that you would like to ask us, make sure to leave a comment down below at A-Z, englishpodcast.com, shoot Jack Ryan e-mail at AZ englishpodcast@gmail.com. 00:03:45 Xochitl Or join the WeChat and WhatsApp groups to join our conversation and we'll see you guys next time. Bye. 00:03:49 Xochitl OK. 00:03:50 Jack Bye bye. Podcast Website: https://atozenglishpodcast.com/grammar-zone-your-and-youre/ Social Media: WeChat: atozenglishpodcast Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/671098974684413/ Tik Tok: @atozenglish1 Instagram: @atozenglish22 Twitter: @atozenglish22 A to Z Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theatozenglishpodcast Check out our You Tube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCds7JR-5dbarBfas4Ve4h8A Donate to the show: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db0