Their vs. There vs. They're

I've had a request from a reader to talk about "Their" vs. "There" vs. "They're", and I'm happy to oblige.

"THEIR" shows possession. For example, "Their car is the green one on the left." "Their" is a possessive adjective used before a noun.

"THERE" is a place. It is the opposite of "here". A popular phrase using the word is, "It is neither here nor there."

"There" is also used to show the existence of something. For example, "There is snow on the ground."

"THEY'RE" has an apostrophe in it, which makes it easy to identify as a contraction of two words. In this case, "they" and "are". So, if you read your sentence back using they words "they are" and it makes sense, you've used "they're" correctly. For example, "They're going to go on holiday to Bali to get away from this cold weather."