Your and yours are both possessive forms of you. Yours is a second person possessive pronoun and is used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the person or people that the speaker is. “yours” is the only correct possessive form of “you” when we write it after the object in a sentence.
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For example, in the sentence “is this book yours?”, it shows. Given that this convention is so frequent in our language, it would be normal to assume that a word such as yours would also need an apostrophe. It refers to something that belongs to.
The correct form is “yours,” without an apostrophe.
Yours is a possessive pronoun used to indicate something that belongs to the person being addressed. So one might think 'yours' should be spelled 'your's'. However, this is always wrong. This is one of the most common ways to write a sentence with “you” in the possessive.
“your’s,” with an apostrophe, is a misspelling of “yours” and is always incorrect. The meaning of yours is that which belongs to you —used without a following noun as a pronoun equivalent in meaning to the adjective your —often used especially with an adverbial. Idiom yours truly (definition of yours from the cambridge advanced learner's dictionary & thesaurus © cambridge university press) However, because its communication of.
In english, an apostrophe typically indicates a contraction or possession, but with possessive pronouns like “yours,” “hers,” “ours,” and.
Here is a trick for remembering the difference:
