Your vs. Our — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Your and Our
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Definitions
Your➦
Used as a modifier before a noun
Your boots.
Your accomplishments.
Our➦
Belonging to or associated with the speaker and one or more other people previously mentioned or easily identified
Jo and I had our hair cut
Your➦
A person's; one's
The light switch is on your right.
Our➦
Used in formal contexts by a royal person or a writer or editor to refer to something belonging to or associated with himself or herself
We want to know what you, our readers, think
Your➦
(Informal) Used with little or no sense of possession to indicate a type familiar to the listener
Your basic three-story frame house.
Our➦
Used with a name to refer to a relative, friend, or colleague of the speaker
Really, she is a one, our Gillian
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Your➦
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience.
Is this your cat?
Our➦
Used as a modifier before a noun
Our accomplishments.
Our hometown.
Your➦
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
Our➦
Belonging to us.
Your➦
A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.
Your Show of Shows
Your World with Neil Cavuto
Not Your Average Travel Guide
Our➦
Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker.
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Your➦
(Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
Your man just bought a new car.
Have you seen what your one over there is doing?
Our➦
Used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.
I'm going to see our Terry for tea.
Your➦
The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you.
Our➦
Misspelling of are
Our➦
Of or pertaining to us; belonging to us; as, our country; our rights; our troops; our endeavors. See I.
The Lord is our defense.
Our wills are ours, we know not how.
