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Understanding the difference between commonly confused words will help you avoid making errors in English usage. Let’s examine the difference between the following:
you’re
You’re is the contraction of you are.
You’re welcome to stay for dinner.
your
Your is the possessive form of you.
Is this your umbrella?
To use both words in a sentence:
You’re not going outside to play until your homework is finished.yore
Yore is a literary term meaning in times past, or long ago.
Edward teasingly asked his father what it was like to have grown up in the “days of yore.”
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