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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Correct the sentence

Have all the tenants paid they''re rent for this month?
  

Top answer

their rent CJ

  • their rent CJ
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This is a phonetic spelling mistake that even I, a native English speaker in the US, sometimes make. The following are English words with the same sound:

they're = they are (a contraction of the two words)

their = the possessive of "they," meaning "of them"

there = an adverb meaning "in that place"

the air (when pronounced very quickly) = the noun "air" with th
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AnonymousThis is a phonetic spelling mistake that even I, a native English speaker in the US, sometimes make. The following are English words with the same sound:
There is a common joke among grammarians, etc. How do you calm a person suffering from a grammatical fit? "There, their, they're".

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