How to Know when to use YOU'RE vs. YOUR in writing

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Tip 1 - How to Use You're and Your

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Frank Hartnett | permalink

Mistaking "you're" for "your" - or vice versa - is a common writing error most people have made at least once. It is also a grammatical mistake that can be disproportionately irritating and confusing for the reader. Fortunately, once you...
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Tip 2 - Five Grammatical Errors That Make You Look Dumb - Copyblogger

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Nikolay Pobozhenskiy | permalink

One thing blogging and good copywriting share is a conversational style, and that means it’s fine to fracture the occasional rule of proper grammar in order to communicate effectively. Both bloggers and copywriters routinely end sentences with prepositions, dangle a modifier in a purely technical sense, or make liberal use of the ellipsis when anRead More...

For further reading: http://www.copyblogger.com/5-common-mistakes-that-make-you-look-dumb/ ^[2]