I keep getting these confused.

How do I know what one to use?

there is a place where people keep their things.

Thanks, but I was kinda hoping for a rule to help me remember.

in other words why can't I say

their is a place where people keep there things.

Main Entry: 1there

Pronunciation: '🇹🇭ar, '🇹🇭er

Function: adverb

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English th[AE]r; akin to Old High German dAr there, Old English thæt that

1 : in or at that place stand over there -- often used interjectionally

2 : to or into that place : THITHER went there after church

3 : at that point or stage stop right there before you say something you'll regret

4 : in that matter, respect, or relation there is where I disagree with you

5 -- used interjectionally to express satisfaction, approval, encouragement or sympathy, or defiance there, it's finished

Main Entry: their

Pronunciation: 🇹🇭&r, '🇹🇭er, '🇹🇭ar

Function: adjective

Etymology: Middle English, from their, pronoun, from Old Norse theirra, genitive plural demonstrative & personal pronoun; akin to Old English thæt that

1 : of or relating to them or themselves especially as possessors, agents, or objects of an action their furniture their verses their being seen

2 : his or her : HIS, HER, ITS -- used with an indefinite third person singular antecedent anyone in their senses -- W. H. Auden

usage see THEY

You better get that down, ddandb, that's one of my pet peeves when people use those wrong... also "your" / "you're" and “to” / “too”. Which is weird… since I’m such a bad speller… you’d think I would be more forgiving… 😉

seriously??? I mean this is like grade school English. But the Little Brown Handbook.

There is a place, just like here

Their connotes ownership, just like heir.

Just take the t off of each one.

and I can't type - should be buy TLBH

I forget how to spell 'their' some times I remember its 'I before E except after C so I think its 'thier' which its not.

"I before E except after C....or as in eigh like weigh and neigh."

Also, we have noted the oft missued your and you're, to and too. But my greatest pet-peeve of all is the overuse of apostrophe s.

Why does every American seem to feel that in order to pluralize any word...you must use an apostrophe s?

Oh....and I almosot forgot.... then is a time, than is a comparative.

oh man....

English class!

Thier , There

Your , You're

The memories of cutting class is all coming back to me now!

i do mis-spell alot of words when typing ( never took typing classes) , but i also spell some words by phonics (and no , not hooked-on-phonics! hehe )

but seeing someone "mis-spell" a word i usually just sound it out...understand what they are typing , and go on. i'm not one to correct someone else cause i do screw-up alot and don't want to be "corrected" for a "minor" slip-up.

hope my opinion isn't taken in the wrong way. i do think it's good to type correctly , but when it's oh-so-close to how it's supposed to be spelled.....on a casual forum board, it's not worth offending someone!

:)

hope i didn't mis-spell anything there!

lol

what about words that are spelled the same???

ah-ha!!!

lead ,lead ????

it's made out of lead!!

they are in the lead !!

oh what can-o-worms

there,thier now

your,you're going to be alright

to,too,two many questions

ahhh ya'all forgot to mention they're

Ok now that you have all studied. Put away your notes and get out a sharp number 2 pencil

http://www.better-english.com/easier/theyre.htm 

see.......show's how much i studied!!!

they're!

i'm skipping this class!!!

i can still pass with a d+ (like Tommyboy)

you'no wen you go dare for dat ting try grab wit boat hands coz it going get away, da bugga stay slipery like dat cuz...

They're going to be angry when they get there to find their stuff gone . . .

do not, i repeat, do not play word games with mr pablo.

you will not win, he be betta den da haoli's.

THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT IT THERE! i know it was thier stuff and they're going to be mad.....but that is thier problem !! you're just going to have to worry about your own stuff around here!