This ultimate guide gives you a detail look at differences and examples of Yours vs Your’s and how they are used to avoid confusion.
Yours or Your’s – Which one to Choose?
The words yours and your’s can prove to be confusing for many native and non-native English speakers. ‘Yours’ is a second person possessive pronoun. It replaces your and adds a noun, making it yours. ‘Yours’ is used to describe another person’s possessions.
You can see that a lot of people spell yours with an apostrophe, such as your’s. Even native English speakers make this dreadful mistake. It is never correct and it does not matter what context it is used in because it will be wrong.
There is no need to put an apostrophe at the end. Many people get this idea because of the variation of you. ‘You’ has three variations, these are: You, Yours and You’re. There is never an apostrophe at the end of yours.
Example Sentences for Yours
Here are some examples of ‘yours’ being used correctly in a sentence:
- This is mine, not yours.
- I found this today; I believe that it is yours.
- Yours sincerely.
- My ideas are better than yours.
- The stage is yours
Wrong Usage Sentences for Your’s
Here are some examples of ‘your’s’ being used incorrectly in a sentence. You will quickly notice how wrong it looks:
- I’m sure this is your’s.
- I gave it to you. Therefore, it is your’s.
- Your’s sincerely.
- Is that car your’s?
- I found your wallet on the ground, is this your’s?
Under no circumstances can you interchange yours and your’s simply because your’s is not a word. If you were to spell it with an apostrophe, you would be almost saying the person is the object of their possession. This makes no sense whatsoever in a literal sense. The bottom line is that ‘yours’ is the only way to spell it and there are no other spellings. No matter how you wish to spell it, it is grammatically incorrect to spell ‘yours’ with an apostrophe.
So don’t get hung up on whether or not you should use ‘yours’ vs ‘your’s’, just remember ‘yours’ is the only way of spelling it.
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