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Are you aware how often people swap around “their,” “there,” and “they’re”? Prove you have more than a fair grasp over these commonly confused words.

Question 1 of 7

Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

But any permanent solution to the conflict must address the pulsing cyst at its heart.
Old Problems and New Realities|Ahmed Moor|November 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST
In “The Incalculable Life Gesture,” an elementary school principal develops a cyst in his throat that may or may not be malignant.
Quick Reads for the Asylum|Taylor Antrim|August 13, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The thought of these things is adventitious, changeable, and does not apply to permanent objects.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3|Plotinos (Plotinus)
In all of these cases, the movement of displacement is identical, and presents only adventitious differences.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3|Plotinos (Plotinus)

He wants all these adventitious excitements, but he has that within which is a greater excitement than all these.
Rookwood|William Harrison Ainsworth
And yet it is but an adventitious honour, which will soon fade, if it be not sustained by personal character and real excellence.
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I|Francis Augustus Cox
He was more so than Columbus, and rendered the adventitious career of the Genoese possible.
Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery|Justin Winsor