Learn some flavorful facts as you practice using there, their, and they’re correctly.
Directions: Fill in the blank in each sentence below with the correct choice of there, their, or they’re.
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1. In Georgia and Kentucky, it’s against the law for people to store an ice cream cone in ________ back pocket. Good thing ________ is nothing illegal about storing it in your tummy!
2. Dill pickles soaked in Kool-Aid are a popular treat in Mississippi. ________ sweet, sour, salty, and yes, also bright Kool-Aid red.
3. More potatoes are grown in Idaho than in any other state. ________ even part of the state’s New Year’s Eve tradition. At midnight, a huge lit-up potato drops down from the sky at the state capitol.
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4. The largest chocolate factory in the world is in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Rumor has it that the air ________ sometimes smells like chocolate.'
5. Hundreds of kinds of cheese are made in Wisconsin—and people ________ are proud of it! At football games, ________ known for wearing “Cheeseheads,” big foam hats shaped like wedges of cheese.
6. It looks like ice cream, but akutaq is actually an ancient Alaskan Native dish. ________ are many different ingredients in the treat, such as moose, caribou, fish, seal oil, berries, and sometimes fresh snow.
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7. Every year at the Iowa State Fair, ________ is a cow sculpture made out of 600 pounds of butter—enough to spread onto 19,000 slices of toast!
8. People in Nebraska are serious about ________ popcorn. More than 350 million pounds of kernels are produced ________ every year. If you were to pop all those kernels, they’d fill more than 2,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
This article was originally published in the October/November 2019 issue.
