There vs Their vs They’re

Use there to indicate a place or to introduce the existence of something. It can function as an adverb pointing to a location or as a placeholder in sentences like there is or there are.

Their is a possessive adjective that shows something belongs to a group of people or animals. It always comes before a noun that is owned by them.

They’re is a contraction of they are. Use it where you can expand the sentence to they are without changing meaning. It commonly appears before adjectives, present participles, or nouns.

Remember: use there for place or existence, their for possession, and they’re for the short form of they are. If you can replace the word with they are, then they’re is correct.

There, their and they’re sound alike but serve distinct roles: use there for location or existence, their to show possession, and they’re as a contraction of they are. Practice switching each sentence aloud to choose the right form.