Let’s talk about homophones.You wouldn’t mind knowing 50+ examples of homophones in English, would you? Quite often, homophones make us get our spellings wrong. That’s how important they are in your English learning.
What do you know about homophones in English? I believe that as soon as you get to know some examples of homophones, you will know what homophones are.
What are Homophones?
Homophone is a term used to refer to those words in the English whose spelling keep playing tricks on our minds. This is just because words that are homophones tend to have twin brothers (or sisters?) when it comes to their pronunciation.
Beating about the bush, right? Okay, look at this simple grammatical formula:
2 or more words of different spelling and meaning that sound the same when they are pronounced = Homophones
In Literature, the use of a pair of homophones can produce what is called rhyme.
We want to make sure that the (wrong/confused) spelling of these tricky words don’t make you appear as if you never practiced spelling back in school.
That is the reason why I have decided it is time I brought as many examples of homophones as I can to you, my dear reader.
Examples of Homophones
Just take a look at them. Here they come!
aid/aide
allowed/aloud
alter/altar
bail/bale
discrete/discreet
board/bored
born/borne
brake/break
cash/cache
canvas/canvass
corps/core
cast/caste
cereal/serial
sight/site
coarse/course/cause
complement/compliment
counsel/council
decent/descent
erstwhile/elsewhere (If you’re not careful you may end up pronouncing them the same way, but no, please)
exalt/exult
fair/fare
flair/flare
flee/flea
foreword/forward
fowl/foul
gait/gate
gel/jell
hair/hare
haul/hall
heal/heel
hear/here
heroin/heroine (Oops, what a contrasting similarity!)
hoarse/horse
hole/whole (I make this mistake quite often.)
idle/idol
led/lead
lesson/lessen
loan/lone
mail/male
maize/maze
marshal/martial
metal/mettle
medal/meddle
miner/minor
moral/morale
muscle/muzzle
naval/navel
piece/peace
pail/pale
parish/perish
peek/peak
pedal/peddle
prosecute/persecute (Not same pronunciation but can be a bit confusing, don’t you think so?)
plain/plane
pole/poll
pray/prey
premiere/premier
profit/prophet (Well?)
Now, let me stop here with my examples of homophones before I begin to trespass into unrelated territory.
I intend to see you some other time on more of this.
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