THEY'RE, THERE, THEIR 1
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DID YOU KNOW?
Their, they’re, and there — three words, three different functions, and a mistake that immediately signals careless writing to any examiner.
Their is a possessive pronoun (their books); they’re is a contraction of they are; there indicates place or introduces a clause (there is). Confusing them in an IELTS or TOEFL essay is a Lexical Resource error — it suggests the writer doesn’t fully control very common words, which undermines confidence in the rest of the vocabulary.
For Cambridge Use of English (Part 2 — open cloze), choosing between these three is a regularly tested item. Getting it wrong costs easy marks. This exercise makes the distinction automatic so you’re not wasting cognitive load on it during the real exam.
Their, they’re, and there — three words, three different functions, and a mistake that immediately signals careless writing to any examiner.
Their is a possessive pronoun (their books); they’re is a contraction of they are; there indicates place or introduces a clause (there is). Confusing them in an IELTS or TOEFL essay is a Lexical Resource error — it suggests the writer doesn’t fully control very common words, which undermines confidence in the rest of the vocabulary.
For Cambridge Use of English (Part 2 — open cloze), choosing between these three is a regularly tested item. Getting it wrong costs easy marks. This exercise makes the distinction automatic so you’re not wasting cognitive load on it during the real exam.
Choose whether the following sentences require there, their, or they're.
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English prefixes and suffixes 1
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