The following is from a reader comment in an Illinois newspaper:
Tell them that there services will no longer be needed.
You likely noticed that "there" should have been "their." "There" is an adverb, as in "Please put it over there." It can also be other parts of speech, but we can deal with those later. The referenced example needs the possessive adjective "their," showing whose services are not needed.
A similar word that can be misused is the contraction "they're," short for they are. It is a combination of the subject "they" and the verb "are," and it is neither an adverb nor a possessive adjective.
Although "there," "their," and "they're" are similar, they can never be used in place of each other. Each has its own meaning and proper usage.
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