Double-click on any word and see its definition from Cambridge Dictionaries Online.
Practise with a grammar game
What's the difference between you're and your?
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I hope you're well. |
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Don't forget your coat. |
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/your.html
What's the difference between it's and its?
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It's my coat. |
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The dog buried its bone. |
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/its.html
What's the difference between who's and whose?
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Who's your best friend? |
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Whose coat is this? |
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/who's.html
What's the difference between they're and there and their?
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They're good friends. |
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There are some biscuits in the fridge. |
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Their coats are the same colour. |
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/their.html
All links to Paul Brian's Common Errors in English .
To see many examples of these structures, see the Web Concordancer.
In the 'search string' field type in you're, your, it's, its, who's, whose, they're, there or their. Select any corpus in the 'select corpus' field, and then click on the 'search for concordances' button.
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