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Learning Your Their, There and They're

Teaching you the meaning of these words and how to put them into the right places.

So then are you having trouble with you're their, there and they're? Well this will hopefully let you learn which context you use these words in. First of all I will write out a little paragraph which has mistakes in of the 3 words above. So let's start:

I was walking along the street, with my friend when he suddenly shouted “Hey look over their!” I looked and I saw a dog fighting another dog. We walked over to it and joined the gathering group, “hey look there tearing into each other!” I shouted, as if hearing me the dogs stopped and ran away in opposite direction, I ran to try and catch up with one of them, I got to the corner and I couldn't see what was happened but luckily someone did “they were fighting over who had most control over they're bone!” I caught up with the dog and luckily it was ok.

Ok then that was a little passage which I just made up, but there are grammar mistakes in them, so lets have a look:

So the first one was:

“Hey look over their!” - So the correction should be “hey look over there!”

The second mistake:

“Hey look there tearing into each other!” - The correction - “Hey look they're tearing into each other!”

Finally the third mistake:

“They were fighting over who had most control over they're bone!” The correction - “They were fighting over who had most control over their bone!”

So what do we need to remember?

Well we need to remember that:

“Their” is for saying that something is belonging to someone,

“There” is for saying that something is somewhere and finally

“They're” is short for they are so they're is saying something is somewhere

(They is meaning for 2 or more people)

Well I hope you have learnt the uses of the words and how to use them in a sentence.

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