Homonyms (homographs and homophons)

Homonyms – homographs

  • live
    • I live in the north of England
    • Your favourite pop star is singing live on TV tonight
  • read
    • I read in bed each night
    • I read War and Peace last year
  • lead
    • The lead singer in the group is great
    • Lead pipes are dangerous
  • wind
    • The wind blew the tree down
    • Don’t forget to wind your watch
  • wound
    • I wound my watch last night
    • He suffered a terrible wound in the war
  • row
    • Some students spend moe time learning to row well than studying
    • They shared a flat for ages until they had a row over money and split up
  • use
    • This book is called “English Vocabulary in Use“
    • You must know how to use words as well as their meaning
  • house
    • The lived in a large old house
    • The buildings house a library and two concert halls as well as a theatre
  • sow
    • The sow has five piglets
    • The farmers sow the seeds in  the spring
  • bathed
    • I bathed the baby this morning
    • We bathed in the sea every day when we were on holiday

Homonyms – Homophones

air – heir
faze – phase
groan – grown
might – mite
pane – pain
pray – prey
right – rite – write
sent – scent
steak – stake
 tire – tyre
weather – whether
aloud – allowed
floe – flow
hoarse – horse
mown – moan
peal – peel
raise – rays
 rough – ruff
sight – site
tea – tee
toe – tow
 dough – doe
flu – flew
its – it’s
our – hour
 place – plaice
 read – reed
sale – sail
sole – soul
there-their – they’re
waist – waste
fare – fair
grate – great
 lays – laze
pale – pail
practise – practice
rein – rain
scene – seen
sought – sort
through – threw
wait – weight
       
  • pail :         pale – pile  –  peel
  • peace:       pies  –  peas  –  piece
  • pear:         peer  –  pier  –  pair
  • road:         wrote  –  rude  – rode
  • sail:           seal  –  sell  –  sale
  • sent:          scent  –  send  –  saint
  • sweet:       sweat  –  suite  –  suit
  • weak:         wake  –  week  –  wick
  • whole:        whale  –  hole  –  wall
  • pail :         pale – pile  –  peel
  • peace:       pies  –  peas  –  piece
  • pear:         peer  –  pier  –  pair
  • road:         wrote  –  rude  – rode
  • sail:           seal  –  sell  –  sale
  • sent:          scent  –  send  –  saint
  • sweet:       sweat  –  suite  –  suit
  • weak:         wake  –  week  –  wick
  • whole:        whale  –  hole  –  wall

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