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- How to
differentiate homonyms: They’re, there, their
VIDEO
SCRIPT, LISTENING TIPS, & GRAMMAR
Hi, my name is Rebecca, and today Iwe’re gonna
be talking about some commonly confused words in English. We have several words like these, which can
be quite challenging. So these words are
called, homonyms. A homonym is a word,
which sounds the same as another word, but it is spelled differently, and has a
different meaning.
Let’s start with the first set for
today. These are which one’s written on
the board. The first one is They’re, the
second one is Their, and the last one is There.
So as you can see, they’re all pronounced the same, but they’re quite
different. The meaning is different,
spelling is different, and when you’re writing, you really need to know the
difference because if you make mistake in one of these words, they’re fairly
basic words and you don’t wanna loose points in essay or on IELTS or on your
TOEFL exam in one obviously … quite basic words. OK?
So, let’s examine that of little more
detail. The first one is They’re: this
one is contraction; a contraction is when we combine two words. So this
contraction, They’re, is the combination of They plus are. We take out the a and we have the contraction
They’re. So that’s the first one, OK? Let’s thnk of some examples with They’re, the
first one. For example, they’re British.
They’re sitting in the car. They’re
international students. In each of these
cases, we’re trying to say, they are ~. They
are international students. They are
sitting in the car, and so on. OK?
Let’s go on to the second one. The second one is Their. There is a possessive adjective. It means; it belongs to them. All right?
For example, that’s their house.
That’s their car. Have you seen
their new house? And so on. So, that’s
been used as a possessive adjective to refer to something that belongs to
them.
Let’s go to the third one, There. There can be two things; in one case, it can
be used as an introduction before the verb, to be. There’s John.
There’s my book, or there’s my friend.
There is sale at the mall, things like that. It can also be used as an adverb to saying ‘in
that place’. Your book’s over
there. Your car’s parked over
there. So this is another way that we
can use there. So now, you’ve got these
three clear, I’m gonna ask you a few questions and you tell me which of these
is the right one that you will use in that example. OK?
So, if we say, have you visited their
house? Have you visited their
house? Which one is that? Have you visited their house? Or
saying ‘their house’ meaning the possessive form, the house that belongs to
them. So, we’re talking about the middle
one which is the possessive adjective.
Here is another one, the’re good friends. Let me give it to you again, they’re good
friends. Which one is that? Right, it’s the first one. They’re good friend is the contraction of two
words, They are, correct? So, it’ll be
the first one. Let’s take another
one. There are many ways to improve your
English. There are many ways to improve your English. Which there is using now? OK?
Have a look, right, is the last one.
There are many ways to improve your English.
So take a minute to review that, when I come
back, we’re going to do a little test one sentene which I’d like you to write
down, maybe you can grab a piece of paper and a pen in the mean time, and I’ll
be right back. OK, did you grab a piece
of paper? So here is the quiz to see if
you master these three words. (1.
_____) sitting over (2. _____) in (3._____) car. Got that? (1. _____) sitting over (2.
_____) in (3._____) car. Write that down
while you’re writing it down, I will write it on board for you. OK?
Did you get all those fours? They are sitting over there, in that place,
in their car, in the car that belongs to them.
So if you got that one right, you probably understood this concept very
well. If you want to do some more
review, write up some more sentences with three the examples and this way you
can be sure that you won’t make mistake in something quite basic. If you have any questions about this lesson or
anything else to do with English, please feel free to go to our website www.EngVid.com All right? See you there, thanks very much, Bye.
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