Is it ours or us?

[MYE_SUYAT]

Hi,

Pls. let me know which word (OURS/US) is correct to use in the following sentence and please insert commas where they should be inserted.

The group who is having a meeting at The Ritz Carlton on the same date as OURS or US is not comfortable with the idea of being with our group on the same floor.


Thank you.

 

[White Hat]

The group having a meeting at The Ritz Carlton on the same date as WE is not comfortable with the idea of being on the same floor with our group.

 

[bhaisahab]

The group having a meeting at The Ritz Carlton on the same date as WE is not comfortable with the idea of being on the same floor with our group.

Nobody would say "we". Of the two, "us" would be more usual, but you will hear "ours".

 

[White Hat]

Nobody would say "we". Of the two, "us" would be more usual, but you will hear "ours".

I meant "having it on the same date as we are".

 

[Barb_D]

I'd use "ours" meaning "a meeting."

Your son was playing nicely with the others while ours were creating chaos.
Your groups is having a meeting on Tuesday, the day after ours.

 

[White Hat]

Here is a line written by an American:

"Change our meeting dates beginning in 2011 from meeting every month to every other month to facilitate Dennis being appointed to the Calaveras Foothills Fire Safe Council which also meets every other month on the same date as we."

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[Barb_D]

The original example used the noun "meeting" as the comparison, not the verb "meets."

They meet on the same day we do.
Their meetings are on the same day as ours.

 

[White Hat]

The original example used the noun "meeting" as the comparison, not the verb "meets."

They meet on the same day we do.
Their meetings are on the same day as ours.

I understand that. Here we have "They are having a meeting on the same date as we are". Can we omit "are" after "we"? I hope you got it now, Barb_D.

 

[Barb_D]

I'd delete the "as" not the "are."

 

[White Hat]

Wouldn't the sentence look better this way:

The group having a meeting at The Ritz Carlton on the same date WE ARE
is not comfortable with the idea of being on the same floor with our group.

?

 

[Barb_D]

There are myriad ways to write this and be gramatical. I personally don't like the "are is" next to each other.

And sometimes you just try to do too much with one sentence. And sometimes you can do it in one sentence, but you try to put too much heavy lifting on the noun phrase.

It's a matter of style. All of these get your point across. Another group -- there when we are -- don't want to be near us. The rest is just window dressing.

I would write something like this:
There is a group meeting at the Ritz Carlton on the same date we will be there, and they are not comfortable sharing a floor with us.