Our dog, Snowflake, won the pet show. Our dog wore the gold medal all the way home.
That puppy is not ours.
the customs seem alike to ours.
The correct sentence would be: "Are the books theirs or ours?" Note the use of the possessive pronouns "theirs" and "ours" to indicate ownership, as well as the question mark at the end to indicate that it is a question.
The vantage had all been ours for the first half of the contest.You can watch the sunset right in front of you, from this vantage point.
This is a good sentence, but you should leave out "that". Many clubs help with service projects but we think ours is the best.
That is not yours, it's ours!
he/she/it is ours. I'd be willing to bet that the sentence is referring to the 'it' part of est, though. To comprehend the sentence fully, as you would with any sentence in any language, it requires context clues which you would receive from the text around it.
An apostrophe is used to show possession: the house belongs to the Robinsons; therefore, it is the Robinsons's house. Our house (or ours - no apostrophe) is on Randolph Drive. Randolph is the name of the drive; it doesn't belong to anybody in this sentence. Of course, the sentence should be:"The Robinsons' house is on Spring Street but ours is on Randolph Drive" as "ours" is a possessive but is an exception. Unfortunately the Wiki spell checker doesn't know the correct usage either. Sigh.
The medieval life was somewhat different to ours
The pronoun "ours" is a possessive pronoun, a word that takes the place of a noun for something that belongs to someone or something.The pronoun "ours" is a plural pronoun.The pronoun "ours" is a first person pronoun.The pronoun "ours" can function as a subject or an object in a sentence.Examples:Ours is the house on the corner. (subject of the sentence)Here is a photo of ours. (object of the preposition)
We spent hours planning for the project, but in the end, it was ours to execute.
Some Animal Rights as stated by The People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) :- Animals are not ours to eat- Animals are not ours to wear- Animals are not ours to experiment on- Animals are not ours to use for entertainment- Animals are not ours to exploit in any way
I'm assuming you want to say "Ours only (and not someone else's)""Nostra Sola" ("Ours only" or "Ours alone")Conversely, if you're trying to say "Only ours (a section of a whole)" you'll want to use:"Sola Nostrae" ("Only of ours")