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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.

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

A season of Game of Thrones tells its story over ten hours, and only a video game adaptation could match or exceed that.
‘Game of Thrones’ Interactive FanFiction: Whoops, My Friend Was Speared in the Throat|Alec Kubas-Meyer|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In all fairness, too, Marshall has at the ready pretty rational reasons for almost every change he made in this adaptation.
Rob Marshall Defends ‘Into the Woods’|Kevin Fallon|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This Jack Clayton adaptation of The Turn of the Screw is one of the rare pictures that does justice to Henry James.
Scorsese’s Scariest Movies of All Time|Martin Scorsese|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Later, Tarantino would help finance the 1996 movie Curdled, a feature-length adaptation of the short.
The Secrets of ‘Pulp Fiction’: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About the Movie on Its 20th Anniversary|Marlow Stern|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST

I asked the Smith brothers to do an adaptation and they did an adaptation of The Death of Jim Loney, another book by Jim Welch.
Sherman Alexie on His New Film, the Redskins, and Why It's OK to Laugh at His Work|William O’Connor|August 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Dramatic adaptation in expressing various characters, emotions, and motives is potentially very great.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
Every new style of dress will admit of adaptation to individual cases, thus producing a pleasing, as well as fashionable effect.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness|Florence Hartley
Man was about to be subjected to an extraordinary strain, which he could only meet by an extraordinary adaptation.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris
An adaptation of the electrol device that had appeared on the most modern ships, Harkness knew how to handle it.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931|Various
M. Gevaert regards the adaptation of the scheme to the other keys as the result of a gradual process of extension.
The Modes of Ancient Greek Music|David Binning Monro