This isn't a rule, its just something worth knowing if you speak or write english
This isn't a rule, its just something worth knowing if you speak or write english
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Their messing up theyre theres, theirs and they'res again?
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What a terrible day to be able to read.
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I'm going to learn it this way now, their sharing missinformation online. context: I'm not native.
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They'ren't, you're!
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I hate the fact that you're right
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Idk why it's hard for anyone. But on the other hand my apostrophies are all little catostrophies.
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Non-native English speakers usually don't make such mistakes. Natives write "by ear" (which is how you initially learn your first language), so they can mix up homophonic words, whereas non-natives usually learned to write at the same time as they learned to speak the language, and they also had the rules and words explained 100% explicitly from the start.
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An interesting explanation.
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Native speaker here, never had any issues with this or any other common homophone in English. I mean, yes, spelling mistakes did occur, and we now have autocorrect to further screw things up. But I never “learned the rules” and still got everything consistently correct from a rather early age.
“Learning by ear” is just another excuse for laziness and/or ignorance. Pick up books, read extensively, and like anyone else not marinating in cultivated ignorance, you too can utilize the language effectively and correctly.
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I once had a teacher who was very meticulous about conditional sentences. She would get upset (not actually but this kind of fake upset) when you said "If I would've ... then it would've ...", and that's why conditional sentences are the only rule I know by heart and I improvise everything else :3
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Their you go!
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thei're
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th'Éire
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þær
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Never seen this before and its great!
My education greatly lacked graphic design, the use of symbols and tricks pretty much entirely.
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I've understood the difference since I was 6 years old, I have vivid lucid memories of learning about this stuff in the first grade, but my "smart" phone's voice-to-text still can't figure it out.
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Whoa
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here (direction) vs heir (people)
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Where's the fancy doodle for "they're?"
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Reject Linguistic prescription embrace linguistic description.
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There for locations
Their for when they are decapitated.
Simple
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