{"id":339,"date":"2008-07-28T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T00:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2012-02-06T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T03:25:07","slug":"youre-from-the-days-of-yore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/07\/youre-from-the-days-of-yore\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re from the days of yore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One pair of misused words that I find really annoying is your\/you&#8217;re. It isn&#8217;t hard to learn one is possessive and one is an abbreviation \u00a0(for you are), but so many people use the incorrect word which shows a lack of knowledge and attention to detail that does not represent them , their content or their business well.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Your<\/span><\/strong>: refers to something you own<br \/>\n<em>Is that your bike?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">You&#8217;re<\/span><\/strong>: an abbreviation of &#8216;you are&#8217;.<br \/>\n<em>You&#8217;re going to work tomorrow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yore<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0referring to the past, although it isn&#8217;t often used now<br \/>\n<em>In days of yore, a Lady&#8217;s ankle was never seen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although these three words sound exactly the same, they obviously can&#8217;t be used as substitutes for each other. No catchy memory tricks for this one &#8211; you simply need to remember that the apostrophe replaces the a in you are to create you&#8217;re.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One pair of misused words that I find really annoying is your\/you&#8217;re. It isn&#8217;t hard to learn one is possessive and one is an abbreviation \u00a0(for you are), but so many people use the incorrect word which shows a lack of knowledge and attention to detail that does not represent them , their content or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[477,475,476],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-yore","tag-youre","tag-your"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}