Their vs A - What's the difference?
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* 1594 , Shakespeare, William, The Comedy of Errors , act IV, scene 3, line 1172:
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, year = 2007
, first = J. K.
, last = Rowling
, authorlink = J. K. Rowling
, title = (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
, location = (quoted edition: London
, publisher=Bloomsbury, 2008
, isbn = 978 0 7475 9586 1
, page = 93)
, passage = ‘I mean ... if somebody made a mistake,’ Harry went on, ‘and let something slip, I know they didn’t mean to do it. It’s not their fault,’ he repeated, again a little louder than he would usually have spoken.
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The first letter of the .
(Marks the first item in a list)
A hypothetical item or person designated first when there are more than one.
The hexadecimal digit for 10
A standard size of dry cell battery slightly larger than a AA battery.
A system of paper sizes with similar proportions, as , etc.
Symbol for the element Argon (Since 1956 has been changed to Ar).
area
ampere, a unit of electrical current.
IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for adenine in genetic code.
IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for alanine in proteins.
Austria
Image:Latin A.png, Capital and lowercase versions of A , in normal and italic type
File:Fraktur letter A.png, Uppercase and lowercase A in Fraktur
File:UncialA-01.svg, A in uncial script
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As a determiner their
is .As a letter a is
the letter a with a tilde.their
English
Determiner
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
- There's not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend
Usage notes
* Regarding the use of singular their , see they . * Distinguish “their'” from “there” and “they’re”. “'''Their ” signifies ownership. “There” designates a place (compare ''here ). “They’re” means “they are”. * This word is an exception of the "I before E, except after C" rule, as the combination of "ei" in the middle of the word is not after a "c".See also
(English personal pronouns)a
Translingual
Etymology 1
From (etyl) letter .Letter
See also
(Latn-script) *Symbol
(head)- A . Go to the store. B. Get some food. C. Return home. D. Eat.
- Person A had 5 apples, and person B...
- 0x0000000A
- The value is hexadecimal A 0, or decimal 160.
