Easily Confused Spelling words
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This document summarizes commonly confused words including their, there, and they're as well as threw and through. It provides examples of correct usage for each word and distinguishes between their meanings. For instance, it notes that their is a pronoun referring to possession, there shows location, and they're is a contraction of they and are. It also explains that threw is an action verb in the past tense while through is a prepositional adverb showing movement from one side or end to another.
Easily Confused Spelling words
- 3. Their, there and they’re Their-remember this one is a pronoun referring to some group’s possession.
- 5. Put the monkey’s bananas over there by the fly swatter.
- 6. People who eat lots of seafood are often healthy, but they’re crabby! They’re going to go crawl under a rock on the ocean floor now so that we don’t have to deal with their crabby attitudes.
- 7. There their or they’re 1- Look up ___________! The sun is winking at me. 2-____________ city was crushed when Godzilla took her baby for a walk through town. 3-Don’t go to _____________party; it is going to be trouble! 4-We think __________ a bad influence on the neighborhood. 5- Do not swim in ____________; it is known to have sea monsters that eat you when you splash.
- 8. Threw is an action verb in the past tense. It shows that some one did something to some one or something. When Uncle Scooter threw his computer out the window, it was snared by a slightly sick seagull with super muscular wings.
- 9. Through is a prepositional adverb that shows something passing from one side to another or one end of something to another. Push the thread through the needle before you try to mend your holey socks!
- 10. When King Kong burst ____________ the door, his bank account was charged for the damages. The first baseman _________ the ball to home plate so the catcher could stop the incoming home run. Watch out or you will go __________ emotional upheaval if you date him! He is bad news. Going ____________ the tunnel, Thaddeus ____________ his trash out the car window.