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Narrator: Today's word is "Your" — determiner, pronounced /jɔː(r)/, with the stress on "your".
Narrator: Your is a word showing that something belongs to or relates to the person being spoken to.
Narrator: In plain English, your means belonging to you.
Narrator: It comes from Old English ēower.
Narrator: A common collocation is "your turn", which describes whose go it is.
Narrator: It differs from "you're", because you're means you are, while your shows possession.
Narrator: In a second sense, your can mean a typical one, as in "your average student".
Narrator: Every part of English relies on the word.
Narrator: So remember: your is yours, you're is you are.
Speaker A: Is it "your welcome" or "you're welcome"?
Speaker B: "You're welcome"! YOUR comes from Old English ēower and shows possession.
Speaker A: So "your" is for things?
Speaker B: Your bag, your phone.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Is this your coat?", ownership. "It's your turn", games. "Mind your head", warnings.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Test it: if you can say "you are", write you're, not your.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Yours is its cousin, thy its twin, and my an alternative — yet your keeps its personal charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "your" in AI prompts — useful for grammar checks and personalisation.
Speaker A: How for grammar?
Speaker B: Fix confusions.
Prompt: Find and fix your and you’re mistakes in this email.
Speaker A: And personalisation?
Speaker B: User messages.
Prompt: Write a welcome message that uses your name and your chosen plan.
Speaker A: Could it help UX?
Speaker B: Yes, for labels.
Prompt: Rewrite menu labels like My Account to Your Account and explain the choice.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Learners.
Prompt: Create a quiz on your, you’re and yours.
Your — meaning in Arabic & definition More Y courses GL Dictionary