· what is the difference between their and theirs, and how is should use them? Their has an odd clumping effect as you intuit. Or the houses minority makes their voices heard. Everyone has their own story means each person has his or her own story while everyone has their own stories … Its could also refer to the models particular size and … · they were hunkered down in their hotel room, where they have been moved to a higher floor. · for clarity and flow i would use the institutions in place of either its or their. Are both of these sentences natural to a native speaker? · for example, which sentence is correct? I want to mean the same thing in … Vs everybody likes their own child. · both are correct, depending on what you mean to say. · 6 while others have correctly identified what the they/their refer to in a strict sense, a literal reading of the referents misses some subtleties in the rhetorical structure. This the first time i have heard the verb to hunker down. · their can have a distributive meaning, so most of the employees prefer to eat their lunch at their desk is the preferred construction. The houses minority makes its voices heard. However,in the text preceding the sentence, there may be a group of people with lives, then 2. · without context, their refers to no one which is singular, the choose 1. · the general rule is that, when talking about things, you use its for singular and their for plural. There is one exception relating to their, for which the oxford dictionary defines two … Everybody likes his or her own child. I looked it up and learn … Sometimes i get frustrated, because i do not see their difference.