It read "Honk if your Irish". There it was, in broad daylight, on the bumber of a beat-up white Chevy. Of course, I was driving right behind it and couldn't avoid looking at it. It was a distraction of epic proportions and I kept having to refocus myself. Honk if your Irish what? I asked myself. Honk if your Irish mother is beautiful? Honk if your Irish Setter is old? I was thankful when he made a left and I continued on down the road.
There's really a very simple test for telling the difference between your and you're. If you can split it into the words you and are, then you should be using you're. If not, it should be your. Your indicates posession. You're indicates a contraction of two words. As it turns out, a lot of people have the same problem with its and it's. The same test applies.
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Wonderful! You can be the grammar police, and I'll be the punctuation police. Now if only we could find someone to handle spelling. (Sorry, Sandie, not you. It's sense, not sence!)
Sandie has never been able to spell. Remember "Good King Wenselsause"? (Similar spelling to Apple Sause).
A Citation:
You do not spell sauce with two s's.
Sincerely,
The Spell Checkers
lol. I know, I was referring to how Sandie used to spell it, not how I currently spell it. Sarcasm is so hard to get across in text.
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