Homophones are words that have the same pronunciation but have different spellings and multiple meanings. Aka, a headache waiting to happen. Obviously, because of context, this won’t matter when sp...
11. There/their/they’re We’ve met this one before, too; it’s another example of those pesky homophones – words that sound the same but have different meanings. The rules: Use “there” to refer to a place that isn’t here –“over there”. We also use “there” to state somet...
Puns are a type of comedic wordplay that involve homophones (different words that are pronounced the same) or two separate meanings of the same word. Example: “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”—Groucho Marx Satire Satire is a style of writing that uses parody and...
In a few cases, a third homophone, although possible, has not been included for simplicity. Different varieties and accents of English may produce variations in some of these pronunciations. The homophones listed here are based on Standard British English. ...
They're called homophones and this quiz is going to test your English accuracy and I have a sneaky feeling that some of my excellent students are going to perform better much better than some of my native-speaking friends. I've already asked some of them to do this quiz exactly as you'...
Common phonics problems: homophones, homonyms and homographs The English language is full of confusing words and sounds. We have many words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings (homophones), for example which / witch or two / to / too or red / read. We have word...
English has a lot of words that look, sound, and/or are spelled the same, even if they have very different meanings. These homographs(words that are spelled the same), homophones(words that are pronounced the same),heteronyms(words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently),and...
Homophones Homophones are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings. Many children will struggle with using the correct word when writing or reading. We created over 15 homophone worksheets to help your child or student master these words....
This paper analyses "regression" thoroughly from the current internal and external research situation.Regression is divided into seven sorts of words which are common words,homonyms,polysemants,homophones,homographs,converted words,and w... W. Jin-an - 《Journal of Guangxi Normal University》 被引...
Homophones are words that sound similar, such as “by” and “buy” and “bye.” We have many of these in English, which means that we have a lot of jokes in anglophone cultures, but at the same time it makes writing quite hard. Here’s an example of a common error: ...