Trump : "We're going to work on our ghettos" (user search)
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« on: October 27, 2016, 06:08:00 PM »

"we're going to work on our, the ghettos - are in so, the, you take a look at what's going on where you have pockets of - areas of land where you have the inner cities and you have so many things"
My english is not good enough, I think. What's the problem in phrase "we're going to work on our, the ghettos" Huh

It should be "we're going to work on ours, the ghettos."

"Our" is used before a noun: That is our book.
"Ours" is used following the verb, at the end of the sentence: That book is ours.

"we're going to work on our, the ghettos." Doesn't make sense because "our" isn't modifying a noun. We're going to work on our _____.  Our what?

Ours is the first person plural possessive pronoun – it replaces “our” + noun.

So if you say "we're going to work on ours"  ours would be replacing "our" + ghettos. The rest of the sentence is just for clarification ", the ghettos."
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