Showing posts with label hour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hour. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

our, hour

Our or our means belonging to us. Our is the first person plural ( we or us ) possessive ( indicating belonging to)--
Our school is playing their school in football on Friday.
We ran over a parking barrier with our car.

Hour or hour ( sounds just like our ) means 60 minutes--
We get off work in an hour.
The recipe says to bake it for one hour.
He gets paid by the hour.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"Our boss checks on us every hour."

Note--"hourly" means each or every hour--
She phoned the hospital hourly for news.
Note # 2--the plural of "hour" is "hours"--
He said to come back in two hours.
I feel like we've been sitting here for hours.
Not to be confused with "ours", a form of "our"--
This street is ours.
They didn't have an umbrella, so we loaned them ours.
Note # 3--many people pronounce "our" to rhyme with "are", so don't confuse them. Are is a form of "be" used with you, we, and they--
We are going to our aunt's house.
They are coming to our show.
You are our favorite author. It's nice to meet you in person.