Let's learn some English #2

Let's learn some English #2 there/their and where/were


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Do you know the difference: there/their /they're

I am back at it again and loving to learn more about those English words that kind of, tend to make us crazy! One of the main reasons that I like to do this post is that, even teachers tend to forget the difference between these confusing words and then it results into us, not using the correct word in front of our students.

Here we go again:

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Do you know the difference between: There/Their


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Let's take a look at there.

There is the word that indicates location.
The easy way to remember this is that within the word there we see here which indicates location.

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Basically the best way to remember there is always to look if you can find "here" in the word,

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Eg. We have to go there to buy our ice cream.

Let's take a look at their.

Their means ownership. It means that something or someone belongs to someone.


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Let's take a look at they're

They're can be written out as: They are.

A video that could help.


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An image that could help.


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Sources

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  3. Source 3

Always make sure that you use the correct one in the correct context.


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I resteemed the two of these posts, both this one and the to/too/two post because it seems that there are still quite a few people who still get them mixed up.
Thank you for presenting these @tanyaschutte.

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