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- 00:04
Your versus You're, a la Shmoop. You're in a verbal smackdown with the meanest
- 00:09
girl in class. It's time to showcase your nastiest insults...
- 00:14
...and your ability to differentiate "your" and "you're".
- 00:17
The word "your"...
- 00:18
...that's y-o-u-r...
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- 00:19
...is the possessive form of the word "you". The word "you're"...
- 00:23
...now we're talking y-o-u-apostrophe-r-e...
- 00:26
...is a contraction of the words "you" and "are".
- 00:29
Let's look at some examples.
- 00:31
Say Mean Girl comes at you with the classic, "Your mama's so ugly, her portraits hang
- 00:35
themselves"...
- 00:36
Or, "Your mama's so stupid, she stared at a box of juice because it said 'concentrate'."
- 00:42
In these examples, Mean Girl is insulting your mother.
- 00:46
Pfft. Time to show this chick how real girls talk smack.
- 00:49
You could go with the nuclear option and tell Mean Girl, "Well, you're so fat that you're
- 00:54
not just a beep on the radar...
- 00:56
...you're a beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep."
- 01:03
Or, there's always, "You're so dim-witted, you probably don't even know that the state space for
- 01:07
position and momentum states is the space of square-integrable functions."
- 01:11
In these examples, the words "you" and "are" have been smashed together to form
- 01:15
the contraction "you're". So, just remember, y-o-u-r is the possessive
- 01:20
form of "you"...
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...and "you're" with an apostrophe is a contraction of the words "you" and "are".
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And now that you're familiar with this grammar rule...
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...and clued in to some excellent insults...
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...go give Mean Girl a verbal lashing she'll never forget.
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