In a current chat dialog, the next sentence got here up as one the place both of “their” and “they’re” may very well be substituted for one another with out altering the which means or grammatical correctness of the sentence:
She notices their sporting identically mismatched socks.
Is it potential to discover a sentence the place any of “their” and “they’re” and “there” may very well be written (on the identical level of the sentence) to create three grammatically appropriate sentences?
- If potential, with out altering punctuation. (Solutions the place punctuation have to be modified for legitimate sentences are OK, however I am going to award a checkmark to the primary triple-sentence the place all three are legitimate with the identical punctuation.)
- Having no change in which means between the three sentences would in all probability be an excessive amount of to ask, so let’s simply go for having all three being grammatically appropriate.
- I am searching for sentences with a primary verb, fairly than sentence fragments (like “Their socks.” / “They’re socks!” / “There, socks.” which might be a trivial instance), and for the phrases they’re / their / there to play some grammatical function within the sentence (not simply be talked about, e.g. “‘their’ is an oft-misspelled phrase.” / “‘they’re’ is an oft-misspelled phrase.” / “‘there’ is an oft-misspelled phrase.” which might be one other trivial instance).
