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Belong to them vs Belongs to them

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Belong to them' is the correct phrase when referring to multiple people or objects, while 'belongs to them' is used when referring to a single person or object.

Last updated: March 29, 2024 • 3104 views

Belong to them

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to multiple people or objects.

This phrase is used when indicating ownership or association with a group of people or objects. It is the plural form of the verb 'belong'.

Examples:

The books belong to them.
The responsibility for the project belongs to them.

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To those who take what does not belong to them.
You got to understand these guards: whatever they're protecting doesn't belong to them.
All those years ago, because of the war, my ancestors brought back things that did not belong to them.
Know what happens to people that take things that don't belong to them, right?
They are puro Indio and these mountains belong to them.
Popat, get ready for a bland life for the seas and salt belong to them now.
Looks like someone's planning on taking something That doesn't belong to them.
He knew those that come to this land take what doesn't belong to them.
How can I watch people pulling on shirts that don't belong to them?
He takes the car keys out of their pockets and figures out which of the cars downstairs belong to them.
They take what doesn't belong to them, not because they're thinking... but because they're junkies.
He'll lock you up in his little cell, and you'll never get out, you'll never go to school, you will never get married and have children of your own to take things that don't belong to them.
Because it doesn't belong to them.
How could they legally take something that doesn't... that doesn't belong to them?
And then you would belong to them.
Someone took what did not belong to them.
It was just like them coming in and getting what belong to them.
It doesn't belong to them.
If these are my people, I'm ashamed to belong to them.
So you belong to them, too, Mutaguchi.

Alternatives:

are theirs
are owned by them
are in their possession

Belongs to them

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to a single person or object.

This phrase is used when indicating ownership or association with a single person or object. It is the singular form of the verb 'belong'.

Examples:

The car belongs to them.
The decision belongs to them.

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The haustenberg. he says it belongs to them.
And yet the world belongs to them.
Our bodies, our biology, everything we are, everything we become, belongs to them.
It belongs to them.
They think I have $250,000 that belongs to them.
They think I have a quarter of a million dollars that belongs to them.
This taxi too belongs to them.
This taxi too belongs to them. I only drive it around.
Let the little children come unto me, for the kingdom of the Devil belongs to them.
And ask some of the people who work in the kitchen, if-if this dog belongs to them.
Now, I can confirm that when I look at the rock, but if it was found there, then it belongs to them.
Your Holiness, the Chinese are once again trying to convince the world... that Tibet belongs to them.
And tomorrow, a different world will begin that different people will shape, and this choice belongs to them.
And if the wormhole belongs to them, why are they 100 miles away?
Now it belongs to them.
He says it belongs to them.
Your babe belongs to them now.
See, they reckon all of this belongs to them.
I'm pleased by the success... but it belongs to them.
Maybe the future belongs to them.

Alternatives:

is theirs
is owned by them
is in their possession

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