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COMMONLY CONFUSED HOMOPHONES


Once you UNDERSTAND them, you will never forget them.

Some Helpful Hints:

(More Kinesthetic Hints in Class)
hear here
we're where wear
you're
your
it's
its
they're
 there their
to too two
I hear with my ear.
Wear an earring in your ear.
The place words here, where, and there all contain the word here:  here   where   there 
We're = We are.  You're = You are.  It's = It is.  They're = They are.  
All  are subject-verb contractions.

Your and their and its are possessive pronouns, meaning "belongs to"  or "has a." 

Possessive pronouns never have apostrophes: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.

One little O was going to the park.  The other little O said, "I want to go, too."
So they went together.

If you have too many of something, you have too many O's.