Grammar for Geeks: Their vs There vs They're

Their, there and they're also break the rule of "add an apostrophe to make possessive." They do behave the rule "add apostrophes when you shorten two words." The correct usage of these words is:

Word

Meaning

Example

They're

Short for They are

They're a couple of computer nerds.

Their

Possessive version of "they"

Their syn-flooder component works well.

There

Indication of location

Hand me that Linux book over there.


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Last update: Mon Mar 13 21:24:09 PST 2000