What is the difference between your and you're?
English learners often find themselves puzzled by similar-sounding words that have very different meanings and uses.
One classic example is.
Define your.
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Belonging to you:
Is this your child?
Not to be confused with:
You're – you are:
Belonging or relating to the person or group of people being spoken or written to:
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You're and your are easy to confuse.
You're means you are.
Your means belonging to you.
You're is a contraction, and your is a possessive determiner.
'you're welcome' means you are.
Definition of your determiner in oxford advanced learner's dictionary.
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The meaning of your is of or relating to you or yourself or yourselves especially as possessor or possessors, agent or agents, or object or objects of an action.
How to use your in a sentence.