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Public relations differs from the other two because it’s all earned media. You develop the story idea and pitch it to a journalist. Unlike marketing or advertising, you do not control the message and the outcome of the piece. You do, however, walk away with third party validation, which helps build your brand.
Traditionally, Marketing is almost always customer focused (B2B or B2C customers), the actual 'market'. Marketing tends to include communication but not exclusively, as it involves other elements in the mix, according to the marketing theory canon: product, price, place, and so on.
PR would be under the Communications umbrella, which extends beyond the customer (not necessarily the 'market'), concerning all stakeholders of a company: employees, public institutions, government agencies, regulating bodies, other companies, partners, suppliers, media and press, etc.
Marketing is the big umbrella, PR, advertising and any other are forms of marketing that goes under that umbrella :)
this is an oversimplification:
1) Marketing: Product, Price, Place, Promotion (market communications)... People, Service, etc.
2) Communications (non-market): Corporate, Internal, PR, Media Relations, Press Advisory, Public Affairs, Influence, etc.
What about earned advertising / paid partnerships with influencers?
You obviously weren't taught very well if you seriously ask this question.