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Soufanemohamed Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Your or Yours

My laptop is better than your / My laptop is better than yourS .. Which's correct?
  

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Yours , the possessive pronoun. We normally do not contract which and is , even though it sounds as such in regular speech.

— Philip

  • Yours , the possessive pronoun.
  • We normally do not contract which and is , even though it sounds as such in regular speech.
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Yours, the possessive pronoun. We normally do not contract which and is, even though it sounds as such in regular speech.
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soufanemohamedWhich is correct?
... better than yours.

your computer = yours
my computer = mine

CJ
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Thank you very much! So what do I have to say? What is better?
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My laptop is better than your laptop (possessive adj. + noun)
My laptop is better than yours (pronoun)

Use a pronoun instead of repeating a noun - it's more elegant! (Your is a possessive adjective)
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soufanemohamedThank you very much! So what do I have to say? What is better?
Which is better? is fine. Just don't contract.
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