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How to spell they've

What it means: Short form of 'they have'.

In a sentence: They've got a big, fluffy dog. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as the've or theyve.

Same family: they, them, their, theirs, they'll. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: They've is a contraction of the pronoun they and the auxiliary verb have. English started using contractions like this more often in speech and informal writing from around the 17th century to make common phrases faster and easier to say.

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