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Your vs. Our — What's the Difference?

Your vs. Our — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Your and Our

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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.
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Our

Used with a name to refer to a relative, friend, or colleague of the speaker
Really, she is a one, our Gillian

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.

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.

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