Take your share and give them …

Analyze the question

The sentence is: "Take your share and give them _." The gap needs a word meaning "the share that belongs to them." That calls for a possessive pronoun that stands alone, without a noun after it.

Explain the concept

• Possessive adjectives (my, your, her, our, their) come before a noun: their share.
• Possessive pronouns (mine, yours, hers, ours, theirs) stand alone in place of the noun: the share is theirs.
• Possessive pronouns never take an apostrophe. Writing "their's" is always wrong.

Go through the options

• A. their's: Wrong. No such word exists, because possessive pronouns don't take apostrophes.
• B. there: Wrong. This is an adverb of place (over there), so it doesn't fit.
• C. there's: Wrong. This is the contraction of "there is" or "there has", which makes no sense here.
• D. theirs: Correct. The sentence reads "Take your share and give them theirs", meaning "give them what belongs to them."

Answer: D

Tip: Possessive pronouns (yours, hers, ours, theirs, its) never take an apostrophe. If you see an apostrophe in "there's", "it's" or "who's", it is a contraction of two words (there is, it is, who is), not a possessive.