You, Your OR Yours?

Hi,

Welcome to the Forum.

Wonder if anyone could enlighten me a bit towards the use of "you" & "yours" ???

your is a possessive adjective. This is my book. That is your book.

yours is a possessive pronoun. Is this book mine? No, it's yours.

you is a pronoun. I have read this book. Have you read it?

... examples:

Thanks for your reply. Come to that, how about if I wish to say "I'm waiting for the reply of Clive/Clive's ?" OR "He's not your teacher, he's our/ours ???"

CliveI very much like the look of you. Sounds fine. Don't say it to a sailor.

How about if I say the same to a blonde bombshell wearing a deep V-neck top

Hi again,

I'm waiting for Clive's reply or I got your reply. I'm waiting for Clive's. Sure, that's the normal way of speaking.

I'm waiting for the reply of Clive Also OK, but rather more formal.

He's not your teacher, he's our. No, it's not grammatical.

Hi

May I throw in my two cents?

The original sense of a possessive pronoun like 'yours' or 'hers' is 'your thing' or 'her thing'. Therefore, to say 'that nice body of hers' would sound somewhat weird because the preposition 'of' itself connotes 'possession'. But we can't say like 'that her nice body' because 'that' and 'her' cannot go along because they belong to the same catego

Hello Teachers

I have a question in regard to the discussion here.

Suppose you possess a picture where your mother is shown up. In this case, you would say "my picture of my mother". Next, suppose your father owns it, then, perhaps you say "my father's picture of my mother". Furthermore, suppose you want to modify the noun phrase with an adjective phrase such as "that beautiful

Hi Paco,

You have a lot of thoughts on the table here.

First, as regards that nice body of hers. To me, it seems simply that we think sometimes of our body as something we possess. Hence, we say my body or this body of mine, or , as in your example, that nice body of hers

(quote user="Clive") That beautiful picture that my father has of my mother (/quote)

Hello Clive

I see! You say that way! It's new to me. I'll remember it. Thank you.

paco

CliveHi again,

I'm waiting for Clive's reply or I got your reply. I'm waiting for Clive's. Sure, that's the normal way of speaking.

I'm waiting for the reply of Clive Also OK, but rather more formal.

He's not your teacher, he's our.

Hi,

... it would be perfectly acceptable saying "can I see a snap of you" ??? Sounds fine to me. My understanding would be that 'of you' here means that 'you' would be in the picture, rather than the possessor of the picture.

I haven't heard the British term 'snap' for a long time.

Best wishe

And "a snap of yours" would be "a snap you made". Synonym to "one of your snaps", I guess. But yet... Can't the latter be ambiguous sometimes? [P]