The only things more confusing than what shall I wear today is, what shall I use – you’re, your or yours. If you keep on reading, we can kill this confusion for you forever.

The funny thing is how all these three terms are pronounced in the same way but the meanings are totally different and often we make silly mistakes. If it helps, you are not the only one who is getting confused between you’re, your or yours’s. There are millions of folks out there, struggling to make it right and with a little bit of focus, you’ll get there

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YOU’RE

Have you seen people writing “your welcome” and you think it’s right? Well, let me break this to you, this is not a correct sentence. It should be ‘you are welcome’ which can be written as ‘you’re welcome’.

Now let’s find out why it is incorrect.

You’re is used as the contraction of two phrases you and are.

Here are some examples:

• I think you’re (you+are) the one we were expecting today.
• You’re (you+are) the most talented employee of our company.
• Let me know when you’re (you+are) ready for dinner.

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YOUR

*Your* is a possessive adjective that is commonly used to define the ownership of anything.

NOTE: ‘You’ is followed by a noun.

Take these sentences for example:

• I would like to meet your mother.
• I hope you have completed your homework.

Make sure your kids are healthy.

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YOURS

*Yours* is often used to indicate things belonging or associated with the person that the speaker is addressing to.

Take these examples:

• 1.The decision will be yours.
• 2.This house is yours now!

 

Yours is a pronoun that is also used in a letter or application.

For example:

• Yours sincerely
•  Yours faithfully
• Yours truly,

 

Yours is also used as a phrase ‘you and yours’ when we want to say something nice to someone, or we want to send good wishes to someone. Like ‘heartfelt wishes to you and yours,’ it means ‘to you and your family or loved ones’.