THEY’RE/THEIR/THERE

If you’ve written they’re, ask yourself whether you can substitute they are. If not, you’ve made a mistake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They're going on a picnic.
They are going on a picnic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Their is a possessive pronoun like her or our.

They eat their hotdogs with mustard.

 

 

 

 

Everything else is there.

There goes the ball, out of the park! See it? Right there!

There aren’t very many home runs like that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There has here buried inside it to remind you it refers to place.

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