language note: Ours is the first person plural possessive pronoun. You use ours to refer to something that belongs or relates both to yourself and to one or more other people. There are few strangers in a town like ours.

Do we use ours?

The idea that ours needs an apostrophe comes out of the fact that on virtually every other word, ‘s indicates possession, so English speakers sometimes think ours should be spelled our’s. However, this is always incorrect – ours is the only correct spelling.

Which is correct our or ours?

Ours vs Our’s Ours is the first person plural possessive pronoun – it replaces “our” + noun. He can’t find his keys, but ours are on the table. Though you may see our’s written even by native speakers, it is incorrect. Ours should never have an apostrophe.

Ours is a possessive pronoun, being a possessive form of we. It can refer to a singular or plural noun, and it can be the subject, object, or complement of a verb or the object of a preposition: China’s economy is very different from ours.