Unlocking the
Secrets:
Homophones and Homographs
Homophones
English words that
sound alike but are spelled differently AND have different meanings too Examples are:
– – – – I, eye, aye dear, deer buy, by, bye their, they’re, there
eye
eye
This is what you see with. You have two of them.
I
Me, myself And
I I I
aye
aye
A pirate would say “Aye, aye” or a voter would vote aye.
V
I
More examples
see two to sea too
you
rain rein
ewe
reign
There are many, many more so Which one should you use? Look up each meaning Or you surely will lose!
Here are a few more:
seen, scene great, grate
pail, pale
bury, berry beat, beet
peek, peak
Now for the HOMOGRAPHS:
Remember: They are
English words that are spelled the same but mean different things. For example: Look at the word light: Please turn on the light.
This has to do with illumination. (Don’t know what illumination means? LOOK IT UP!)
It was as light as a feather. This has to do with how heavy it is.
Let’s try a few more HOMOGRAPHS:
Which fan is an admirer of someone or something? Which fan keeps you cool?
(Do you know?)
JUST A SMALL LIST OF HOMOGRAPHS:
read
bow second present
bowl
bass lead tear
lean
close live wind
punch
wind does wound