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you're

contraction
YUUR/jʊɹ/UKYAW/jɔː/

Often confused with your

1 meaning of you're

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    Contraction of 'you are,' combining the pronoun and verb into a single word.

    You're the only person who remembered my birthday.

    If you're ready, we can leave now.

    Note

    The apostrophe marks where the a of are has dropped out, fusing pronoun and verb so that the result sounds exactly like your. That shared sound causes the trouble. The contraction is always a subject plus a verb, so a quick check is to expand it: "You're smarter than I am" becomes "you are smarter." A phrase like "you're face" fails that test, which is what gives away the misspelled possessive.

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