Grammar / Spelling?

[dippydawg1932]

If someone is making this mistake of "your" vs. "you're", for example, you'd call that an error of grammar, rather than spelling, right?

Comments

[gavin]

yes, I would consider that an error of grammar

[hardvice]

It's kind of both. Using "your" instead of "you're" creates a grammatical error because they've written a sentence without a verb. Using "you're" instead of
"your" creates a grammatical error because they've included an extraneous verb. But in each case they've also misspelled the word they were aiming for, which is a spelling error.

So what you have is a spelling error that results in a grammatical error. They did not intend to either include or disinclude a verb; the grammatical error arises because they can't spell.

[ksop]

Thank you...I tend to consider myself a grammar nazi, and you summarized that nicely.