Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • Hello.

  • Funny.

  • You're a great teacher.

  • Yeah.

  • No roll.

  • Mhm.

  • Hello guys.

  • My name is funny and in this video, I'm going to tell you about the most common english mistake in the universe.

  • Now, even native speakers make that mistake?

  • My mother makes that mistake.

  • And to be honest, sometimes I do.

  • It's not so much a speaking mistake.

  • It's a writing mistake.

  • It's actually to write the possessive adjective.

  • You're instead of the contraction you're from, you are, this is the most common english mistake, but you need to fix it if you want to speak proper english.

  • Okay, so let's take a look at a few example sentences together.

  • Your daughter is pretty, so your daughter, this is the possessive adjective of you whose daughter yours.

  • Okay, so the daughter belongs to you.

  • That's a possessive adjective.

  • So the sentence is correct in the second sentence, you're a pretty daughter.

  • See the difference.

  • Now, this is not a possessive adjective, this is the verb to be, but it's the contraction.

  • So if you are a pretty daughter and the contraction is you're a pretty daughter.

  • The problem here is that your possessive adjective and your contraction of the verb to be have the exact same sound in many english speaking regions.

  • Okay, it's very similar.

  • So when we speak, it's the same, people don't hear the difference.

  • So the very important thing is to write it properly.

  • And there are so many spelling mistakes.

  • If we look at the third sentence, you're a nice person.

  • What do you think is the sentence right or wrong.

  • Well, it's wrong.

  • You're a nice person.

  • you are a nice person.

  • So it's the verb to be okay.

  • So it's not your this is the possessive adjective and it should be your U.

  • Apostrophe R.

  • E.

  • Okay, I hope you understand the difference between the possessive adjective, you're and the verb to be contracted to your.

  • Okay, so stelling is key here and when you speak english people don't hear the difference so it's fine but it's important to know how to write it.

  • And in fact if you look at facebook pages or twitter accounts, even from native speakers, you will see this mistake.

  • Don't hesitate to correct native speakers.

  • Okay, Everybody should stop making that huge mistake.

  • I hope you now have a better understanding and you will not make that mistake again.

  • Thank you very much for watching my video.

  • Thank you guys for watching my video.

  • I hope you liked it.

  • And if you did please show us your support, click, like, subscribe to the channel, put your comments below and share with your friends.

Hello.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it