Homographs - Homonyms and Homophones
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Acknowledgement: Wikipedia
Homograph means 'same picture' or 'same writing'. Homographs are written (spelled) the same.
- The same spelling as another word or words
- Has a different meaning or a different pronunciation.
For instance: The violinist put down her bow and made a bow to the audience.
- The same spelling as another word or words
- Has a different meaning or a different pronunciation.
For instance: The violinist put down her bow and made a bow to the audience.
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Bass - a type of fresh and salt water fish
Bass - a low, deep sound, voice or tone |
Live - to be alive, have life, spend one's life
Live - having life, not dead or extinct |
Sow = to plant a seed
Sow = a female pig
Sow = a female pig
Homonym is a word that has:
- Sounds the same as another word or words
- The different spelling as another word or words
- Has a different meaning
- For example: I can see one can of beans on the shelf.
Let's write it right
Homonym is a word that has:
- Sounds the same as another word or words
- The different spelling as another word or words
- Has a different meaning
- For example: I can see one can of beans on the shelf.
Let's write it right
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- Fair
- Fare |
- Die
- Dye |
- Pair
- Pear |
- Pain
- Pane |
- Birth
- Berth |
- Red
- Read |
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The 'phone' part of the word comes from the study of 'phonology' - the language's sounds. Homophones are words that are pronounced the same.
Homophone is a word that has:
- The same pronunciation as another word or words
- Has a different spelling or a different meaning
For instance: She knew that she urgently needed a new car.
Please ask him to sing that hymn at our wedding.
Homophone is a word that has:
- The same pronunciation as another word or words
- Has a different spelling or a different meaning
For instance: She knew that she urgently needed a new car.
Please ask him to sing that hymn at our wedding.
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- Saw
- Soar - Sore |
- Too
- Two - To |
- Night
- Knight |
- New
- Knew |
- Due
- Dew |
- For
- Fore - Four |
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- The bandage was wound around the wound.
- The farm was used to produce produce.
- The dump was so full, it had to refuse more refuse.
- At the end of the meal, he decided to present the present.
- The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
- There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
- They were too close to the door to close it.
- The buck does funny things when the does are present.
- After a number of injections, my jaw got number.
- I shed a tear when I saw the tear in the painting.
- How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
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accept - take in
ad - advertisement advice - guidance aid - assist, assistance ail - to suffer poor health air - atmosphere aisle - a passage allusion - an indirect reference altar - table in a church ate - past tense of eat bail - to clear water band - a ring, something that binds bare - uncovered bases - starting points beat - to strike, overcome blew - past tense of blow bread - baked food item buy - purchase |
except - other than
add - join, combine advise - recommend aide - one who gives assistance ale - a beverage heir - one who inherits property I'll - contraction of I will illusion - false appearance alter - to change eight - the number 8 bail - release of a prisoner band - a group bear - large animal bases - four stations on a baseball field beat - exhausted blue - the colour bred - produced by - near, through |
ere - before isle - island bale - a large bundle banned - prohibited bear - support, yield basis - a basic principle beet - a plant with red roots bye - goodbye |