It is beyond my limited mental powers to understand how anyone could be let out of school without knowing the correct usage of THEIR, THERE and THEY'RE. I have just read an otherwise insightful article about evolutionary theory in which the author utterly destroyed his credibility by mixing up "their" and "they're" not once, not twice but three times. It's a schoolboy error- if you happen to be in third grade.
For those of you who are similarly grammatically challenged, here is a handy primer you can cut out and tape to your computer monitor:
THEIR is a third person, personal pronoun. "They took their briefcase full of money and left."
THERE can be an adverb ("She went there last year and lost her remaining teeth."), a pronoun ("There is nothing more I can do for your goldfish."), a noun ("From there on you have to take your own lobster bib.") or an adjective ("Talk to that guy there, he saw the cows attack.")
THEY'RE is a contraction of THEY ARE as in "They're destroying the English language because of poor grammar."
Up next, apostrophes.
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