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Homophone Challenges - Introduction 2

The words there, their, and they're, sound the same but they have different meanings.

there    -   a place
their  -   belonging to them
they're  -   they are

Fill in the blanks with there, their and they're.

            Last Saturday I was at a friend's house.  We were (1)_________ about 10:15.  (2)_________ were lots of things to do (3)_________.  His parents took (4)_________ dog for a walk after we had supper.  (5)_________ very nice poeple.   (6)_________ home is far from mine.   (7)_________ dog's name is Snowball.   He wags his tail everytime I go (8)_________.   (9)_________ dog is very quiet and hardly makes any noise. (10)_________ the nicest, and kindest family I know when I'm (11)_________. Although I don't know if (12)_________ always like that or just when I'm around. (13)_________ was one time (14)_________ parents told me to go over (15)_________ to (16)_________ house and have a family get together dinner with me around. I wonder why (17)_________ so nice to me. Anyways, at least I'm happy when I'm (18)_________.