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To: dhls
"Your" is a second-person genitive pronoun that serves as an adjective indicating possession. For example: Your idiocy offends me. "Idiocy," the noun, is modified by the genitive "your," indicating that the idiocy in question belongs to you.

"You're" is a contraction of the English words "you" and "are." For example: You're an idiot for not knowing the difference between "your" and "you're." The previous sentence indicates that YOU ARE an idiot ...

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44 posted on 01/12/2006 9:35:28 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

Eats, Shoots and Leaves!


152 posted on 02/01/2006 6:34:10 AM PST by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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