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HomophonesList~MagicE

HomophonesList~MagicE(EnglishClub.com)
"MagicE"isanincrediblyusefulspellingrulethatallnativespeakerslearnwhenyoungbutotherlearnersof
Englishareoftenunawareof.ThebasicversionisthatanEafterashortvowelsoundandasingleconsonant
makesthevowel"sayitsname",i.e.takethepronunciationofthatletterwhenyousaythealphabet.Thisis
howitworksforthefivelettersthatarevowels:
ainatchangestoAinate,egwhenchangingfromhattohate
einsetchangestoEinPete,egwhenchangingfrommettomete
iinitchangestoIinwrite,egwhenchangingfrombittobite
oinhotchangestoOinchoke,egwhenchangingfromhoptohope
uinbutchangestoUinuse,egwhenchangingfromcuttocute
LearningthehomophonesofwordswithamagicEinthemcanhelpyoulearnthispronunciationandspelling
rule.Ifyoualreadyknowthisrule,youcanthenuseittolearnthewordsthatarehomophones,egusing
yourknowledgeofhowtosay"base"asawayofrememberingthedifferencebetweenbassguitar(whichhas
thesamepronunciation)andbassthefish(whichisdifferent).

WordswithmagicEmakingAsayitsname
ate/eight
bale/bail
base/bass(guitar)
based/baste
brake/break
chased/chaste
daze/days
gaze/gays
grate/great
lane/lain
laze/lays
made/maid
male/mail
mane/main
maze/maize
pale/pail
pane/pain
place/plaice
plane/plain
raze/rays
sale/sail
shake/sheik
stake/steak
tale/tail
vane/vein
wade/weighed
wave/waive
whale/wail

WordswithmagicEmakingEsayitsname
genes/jeans
mete/meet

WordswithmagicEmakingIsayitsname
bite/byte
https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/homophonesmagice.htm

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HomophonesList~MagicE

cite/sight
clime/climb
fined/find
mined/mind
miner/minor
mite/might
pride/pried
prize/pries
rise/ryes
rite/right
side/sighed
sine/sign
site/sight
size/sighs
tide/tied
time/thyme
wise/whys
write/right

WordswithmagicEmakingOsayitsname
hose/hoes
lode/load
lone/loan
mode/mowed
nose/knows
ode/owed
pole/poll
rode/road
role/roll
rose/rows
sole/soul
throne/thrown
yoke/yolk

WordswithmagicEmakingUsayitsname
use/yews
muse/mews

https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/homophonesmagice.htm

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