Grammar Helper: There, Their, They’re
This is part of the series:
- Grammar Helper
- Grammar Helper: Ensure, Assure, Insure
- Grammar Helper: There, Their, They're
- Grammar Helper: Appraise vs. Apprise
- Grammar Helper: Idea vs. Ideal
- Grammar Helper: Commas in a series
- Grammar Helper: Who and Whom (simple version)
- Grammar Helper: I vs. Me
- Writing Help: Who's vs. Whose
- Writing Helper: Just Thinking to Myself
- Writing Helper: Poor and Pour, Then and Than
- Grammar Helper: Its vs It's
- Writing Helper: Breath vs. Breathe, Bath vs. Bathe
- Cite, sight and site
- Writing Helper: Stationary vs. Stationery
- Writing Helper: Lose vs. Loose
- Avoiding the Passive Voice
- Possessive vs. Plural: Getting it Right
- Writing Helper: A lot
- Writing Helper: Bath vs Bathe
- Writing Helper: Choose vs Chose
- Writing Helper: Idea vs. Ideal
I often see these mixed up, even though it’s very easy to tell which to use when.
- There refers to a place, as in “Put it there.” It’s also used to declare the existence of something, as in “There are four people here.”
- Their is a possessive pronoun, conveying the idea that something belongs to them. For example, “It is their money,” or “The house is theirs.”
- Finally, they’re is a contraction to replace “they are.” Use it like so, “They’re going as soon as they get permission.”
July 6th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
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