Question

Choose the right word/phrase that completes the sentence.
Dear Mr. Rao, thank you for your support. ______ Sincerely, Ritu Pandey.
A. Your
B. You’re
C. Your’s
D. Yours

Answer 1

Hint:Pronouns are any small set of words that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases that have already been mentioned or to a noun that doesn’t need to be named specifically.

Complete answer:
Option A: ‘Your’ is a possessive determiner which is used before noun. Your means a from of the possessive case of ‘you’ when used as a pronoun. For example, “I borrowed your pen”. As in the given sentence, Sincerely is not a noun, so ‘your’ cannot be used and thus it is an incorrect answer.

Option B: ‘You’re’ is an incorrect answer because it is a short form of ‘you are’ and is often followed by the present participle i.e. verb ending with ing. As ‘Sincerely’, is not a verb ending with ing so ‘you’re’ cannot be used in the sentence.

Option C: It is an incorrect answer because it is an incorrect way of spelling yours.

Option D: ‘Yours’ is a possessive pronoun which indicates that the pronoun ‘you’ has ownership of something. ‘Yours’ is used in place of a noun. In the given sentence, ‘yours’ can only be used before Sincerely.

 Hence, the correct answers are Option ‘D’.

Note:The best way to remember the difference between ‘your’ and ‘yours’ is that your has a noun following it and yours is the object pronoun used in place of a noun. The difference can be better seen from the following example: “your dog is cute”, we can see that yours is followed by a noun(dog) and “is that dog yours?”, here yours is used as an object pronoun and doesn’t have a noun following it.