| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| your (pron., determiner), you’re (contr.) |
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| Your is the possessive pronoun: Your umbrella is in my car. You’re is a contraction of you are: You’re sitting on my hat. Even good spellers can mix them up inadvertently (see ITS), but sharp-eyed readers are quick to spot such mistakes. Proofread. | 1 |
| Your used as a determiner without real possessive force, as in Now take your average politician, is folksy stuff, possibly amusing in the right context—at the Casual level or in Informal imitation of it—but clearly out of place almost everywhere else. | 2 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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