Difference between "yours" and "your"?



What is the difference between the following sentences?



Your car is black.


The car of yours is black.




Answer





  • Your is a possessive adjective:



    Your car is black!





  • Yours is a possessive pronoun:



    That car of yours is black!





It is "used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the person or people that the speaker is addressing".


Basically, those two sentences have the same meaning.


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