From the
User Guidelines:
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6. Thou shalt pay rudimentary attention to thy grammar and spelling. You don't have to win a Pulitzer for what you post here, but try to show at least a semblance of intelligence.
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I don't know about everyone else, but learning homonyms was something that was taught to me in grade two or three. Recently, I'm seeing people make mistakes with seemingly simple words far too frequently. Now I realize nobody is infallible, and I sometimes will type something quickly and not realize I've made an error until after I hit the Post button, but lately the amount of errors (and often multiple times in the same post!) has gotten ridiculous.
So here's how to use these words properly. Learn this now to avoid embarrassing yourself in the future.
'There' specifies a place, as in, "Kipper is looking pretty solid out
there."
'Their' is a possessive, as in, "
Their skaters are good, but
their goaltending is weak."
'They're' is a contraction of 'they are', as in, "With the additions the Flames made this Summer,
they're a better team now."