Spelling Mistakes Every Smart Person Can Make

By siliconindia  |   Thursday, 15 November 2012, 21:52 IST   |    2 Comments
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1. You’re and Your:



Many get confused when they start using these two words even though they are two different words of different meaning. The word You’re is used to substitute the words “you and are” and the word ‘your’ is used to refer something that belongs to some other person you are talking about. So, what’s so confusing in that, no one know.  The word ‘your’ is used in phrases like ‘Take your book’, ‘this is your worksheet’ etc.



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2. It’s and Its:



These two words are very much similar to each other and it is pretty confusing for everyone who looks at these two words together. Both the words are many times are misused knowingly or unknowingly. Usually when you use the word “It’s” [The word which includes apostrophe before the letter‘s’] when you want to say ‘It is’ or ‘It has’. The other word ‘Its’ [The word without apostrophe] is normally referred to something that belongs to ‘it’.



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