Language awareness
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Homophones are words that sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings e.g. flower and flour.
You need to learn these words as there are no spelling rules to help you remember them.
Here is a list of 70 common homophones:
- air, heir
- aisle, I'll, isle
- allowed, aloud
- aren't, aunt
- ate, eight
- awe, oar, or, ore
- be, bee
- bean, been
- bear, bare
- berry, bury
- blew, blue
- break, brake
- buy, by, bye
- caught, court
- cereal, serial
- check, cheque
- die, dye
- draft, draught
- earn, urn
- fair, fare
- find, fined
- flew, flu
- flower, flour
- for, four
- genes, jeans
- guessed, guest
- hair, hare
- hay, hey
- hear, here
- higher, hire
- hour, our
- key, quay,
- knight, night
- maid, made
- new, knew
- none, nun
- oh, owe
- packed, pact
- packs, pax
- pair, pear
- pause, paws
- pea, pee
- peace, piece
- place, plaice
- plum, plumb
- practice, practise
- profit, prophet
- raw, roar
- read, reed
- road, rode, rowed
- sale, sail
- sauce, source
- saw, soar, sore
- scene, seen
- sew, so, sow
- sole, soul
- son, sun
- steal, steel
- tea, tee
- there, their, they're
- through, threw
- to, too, two
- wail, wale, whale
- waist, waste
- war, wore
- ware, wear, where
- whether, weather
- which, witch
- would, wood
- write, right
Exercises
A. Choose the right word or words to fill in the gaps in the sentences below.
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| 1) | He his motrbike along the | |
| 2) | She was stung by a | |
| 3) | I need to see if he has cashed the | |
| 4) | The is shining, it is a beautiful day. | |
| 5) | He used an | |
| 6) | After the Church Service the vicar wanted to the body. | |
| 7) | There was a terrible soming from under the door. | |
| 8) | To make a cake you need 300 grams of | |
| 9) | A dog has four | |
| 10) | Every day he has to the piano. | |
| 11) | Last year the company did not make a . | |
| 12) | In July there was a big in my local dupermarket. | |
| 13) | The of his shoe was destroyed by his dog. | |
| 14) | The against terrorism started a few years ago. | |
| 15) | This table is reserved customers. | |
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B. In the following sentences there is a deliberate mistake. Correct the sentences.
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| 1) | Waist not, want not | |
| 2) | Yesterday I died my hair | |
| 3) | In my company the usually like to higher people who speak 2 foreing languages | |
| 4) | A button has come off my shirt. My Mum will have to sow it back on for me | |
| 5) | When I last looked there were three people playing tennis on caught 3 | |
| 6) | The place they visited yesterday was extremely picturesque | |
| 7) | Most people whi finish university urn an average of $220,000 p/a | |
| 8) | There was a whale of pain from the patient as the dentist extracted one of his wisdom teeth | |
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C. Make a sentence with each of the following homophones.
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| 1) | Profit | |
| 2) | Prophet | |
| 3) | Steal | |
| 4) | Steel | |
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