Thanks to BeetleyPete for telling it like it is!

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Mainly aimed at younger and new bloggers, I thought it was time to suggest a few things regarding blog posts.

Don’t forget, you are writing. If that writing is in English, you have to obey the rules of grammar. After all, this is not texting or Facebook, and LOL is not a word, however much you might want it to be.

Here are some very basic rules. Rules that are constantly broken, or ignored.

YOU’RE means ‘You Are’
YOUR, means ‘belonging to. As in ‘That is YOUR hat’
IT’S means ‘It Is’
ITS means belong to, as in ‘I could tell that was its hat’.
THERE means a place, a destination, or a specific point. As in. ‘Put your hat on the hook, over there’.
THEY’RE means ‘They are’. As in, ‘They’re over there’.
Apostrophes denote many things, but mostly ‘belonging to’.
TRAPS, VIDEOS, TYRES, CARS, FRUITS, VEGETABLES, etc, do…

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