Take the 2-minute tour ×  If a person uses the wrong form of
your or you're, would that be considered a spelling or
grammatical error? I can really see it swinging both ways...  A
sentence with the incorrect use of the word is technically
grammatically incorrect, but the root cause could be simple
spelling error. If a person speaks a sentence with an incorrect
use of the word in question, it seems grammatically correct.
When you look at the reader's script, it is then determined to
be a spelling error.   share|improve this question  closed as
not constructive by Jeremy, MετάEd, Robusto, StoneyB, Lynn Dec
14 '12 at 3:35   This doesn't seem like an objective question,
but IMO the term "spelling error" is reserved for words not in
the dictionary. –  Jeremy Dec 14 '12 at 0:05  1 Answer 1  up
vote 6 down vote accepted  I know that it may sound
tautological, but the defining difference between two different
kinds of error is the kind of error: It depends on whether the
writer's mistake was in believing that they we