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Andrespetmonkey said:
spurgeonryan said:
So their and they're are basically used for the same thing, except whenever you ate saying they ate you use they're? Ate=are.


No, their is when it's belonging to something. So you would say "I ate their apple" and they're simply means "they are" so you would say "they're eating my apple."

 

They're sitting in their car over there by the drive-in.

Haha, I can't believe you had to teach Ryan about that!

*pats Ryan on the head* You'll get it sometime.