When do you use too and to, where and were, there and their (as I looked to the sky. Is that correct?) or does anyone know of a thread with these already explain? Cheers all
Where would be (Where did you come from?) Were is (Were you helping him?) There would be (Over there, you will find everything you are looking for) Their is (The children need their parents permission to go.) Where is a place were can be used as were and we're as in we are There is a place Their is meaning more than two people I hope this will help a little. Not sure if there is a sight on here about that but I am sure there is somewhere.
The easiest way that I remember them is to use Too as an adverb. As in "I want to eat too." It is also used when referring to a relative measure, as in "too many" or "too hot". For all other uses use "To".
or does anyone know of a thread with these already explain? yes... it's called a 'dictionary'... ;-) seriously, if you'd looked up each of those words, you wouldn't have had to ask...
Where and were are not homphones because they're pronounced differently. However, where has at least two homophones, wear and ware: Where is the bathroom? Wear that delicious blue dress tonight. But ware the wolf that prowls that dark forest! The other two are actually triple homophones as given: To, too, and two There, their, and they're
Dictionary definitions are useless for explaining simple words because they tend to define them with more complex, and provide no examples of how to use them. Perfect example "They is a third-person, personal pronoun." Some dictionaries would define "their" as the posessive form of "they". If you don't understand how to use "they," terms like "third person" and "personal pronoun" are not going to help. It really only helps in a case like this if you know how to use the words but forget which spelling is for which use. It refers to more than ONE person. It's the posessive form of they, so "This that family's house" can be written as "This is their house," if you know who "their" refers to.
it's incumbent upon anyone who wants to be a 'writer' to have a good, example-providing dictionary close at hand... these days, that can even be accessed with the click of a mouse... the one i use myself is a good example of only one of many helpful dictionaries:
