Your you're difference

Your is possessive, meaning that something belongs to you or the person you are speaking to. For example, “What is your name?” Or, “Are these your car keys?” You're is a combination of the words, you and are. ... You're is the words you are put together.

1. How do you use you're in a sentence?
2. What are the 3 different yours?
3. Is it your or you're cute?
4. Is it your or you're the best?

How do you use you're in a sentence?

You-re sentence example

1. I'm awfully glad you're my brother. ...
2. Are you sure you're alright? ...
3. I think you still need someone here, but you're definitely getting better. ...
4. I sure hope you're going to deliver what you've been promising all evening. ...
5. Natasha, how glad I am you're not angry with me!

What are the 3 different yours?

But isn't it difficult?

• your – possessive, the thing belonging to you. See how it ends in “our”? Use that as a reminder. When it belongs to us, it's our thing. When it belongs to you, it's your thing.
• you're – a contraction of the words “you are”. The apostrophe is your signal that the word can be split into two words.

Is it your or you're cute?

You're is a contraction of "you are," as in "You're cute" (or "You are cute"). Contractions combine two words and usually use an apostrophe ('). Contractions like you're are very common in spoken English. Your is a possessive adjective.

Is it your or you're the best?

The confusion between your and you're occurs because the two words are pronounced pretty much the same. The ironclad rule – no exceptions – is that if you're able to replace the word with "you are," you're saying you're. Otherwise, your only choice is your.