SIMPLE YET OFTEN MISUSED WORDS - I always see you’re used improperly so I decided to make a list and tips for those kind of words like Their. A helpful guide for these simple words and tips so you can remember which one to use.
YOU’RE VS YOUR
- Your is the second person possessive adjective, used to describe something as belonging to you. Your is nearly always followed by a noun.
ex: That is your book. It belongs to you.
- You’re is the contraction of “you are” and is often followed by the present participle (verb form ending in -ing).
ex: You’re amazing. If you are can’t fit into the sentence and make sense then use your
THEIR THERE AND THEY’RE
- Their is the third person plural possessive adjective, used to describe something as belong to them. Their is nearly always followed by a noun.
ex: Their books are on the table. This word is a possessive word.
- There has several different uses.
1. Adverb that means the opposite of “here”
ex: He’s over there.
2. Pronoun that introduces a noun or clause.
ex: There is something strange going on.
3. Adjective that emphasizes which person.
That guy there seems to be in trouble.
4. Noun that means “that place.”
From there, we drove to Boston.
4. Noun that means “that place.”
From there, we drove to Boston.
- They’re is the contraction of “they are” and is often followed by the present participle (verb form ending in -ing).
ex: They’re having fun. If you can put they are there and it makes sense then you’re using it right.
ETC
- It’s is a contraction of “it is” or “it has.”
- Its is the possessive form of “it.”
- Who’s is a contraction of who is or, less commonly, who has.
- Whose is the possessive of who or, somewhat controversially, which
- To has two functions. First, as a preposition, in which case it always precedes a noun.
- Too also has two uses. First, as a synonym for “also”:
- Two is a number.
hers, yours, ours should NEVER have an apostrophe before the S.