First I want to say hello! This is my first post on Blogger, although not my first blog. I used to write here and there on Blurty.com, but it has absolutely no traffic, was hard to find, and just not easy to write on. So far everyone says how great Blogger is, so hopefully I'll like my new home.
For my first post, I just want to give you a simple English lesson. Now, hopefully anyone reading this will be intelligent enough to realize what I'm saying is true and help out a few other people advance in this manner, or even catch themselves when they do it here and there. I'm not the most grammatically correct, not the best speller in the world (thank god for spell check) but this is simple grade school English.
Today's lesson: the difference between your and you're.
Your is possessive. It means you have something. YOUR eyes. YOUR lips. YOUR television.
You're is a contraction of the words YOU and ARE. So you're a beautiful person. You're being too loud. You're coming to the party.
Ways not to use them? You're eyes are beautiful. Your a great person. You're cat. Your too nice.
Now I only say this because it's one of my pet peeves and people do it all the time. I've seen it on blogs and message boards and all kinds of places. And usually the people that are using them incorrectly are flaming someone for their looks or their speech or their attitude. If you're going to flame someone, at least do what you can to not look like a moron yourself.
It's off to watch Hell's Kitchen, then bed for the evening. Thanks for reading, and enjoy you're night. ;)
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