National

University of
Modern
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campus)

Submitted to: Ma'am Faiza Saeed

Submitted by: Muneeb Tahir Saleemi
Roll no : FS-1914
Section : BS 7th A
Subject: Semantics and Pragmatics
Topic: Homophones and Homonyms
Submission Date:10th October,2022
Homophones:
The simplest definition to homphones is "two words are said to
be homophone when they are identical in sound.
In other words it has "different form, different meaning but
same pronunciation."
A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word
but has a different meaning and/or spelling. “Floor” and “flour”
are homophones because they are pronounced the same.
In other words,A homophone is a word that sounds the same as
another word but is usually spelled differently and has a
different meaning. Homophones may consist of two or more
words, although pairs are more common than three or more
words that sound the same. Examples of homophones that
have three words are to, too, and two, and their, there, and
they're.
The prefix homo- means "same." The root phone comes from
the Greek word phonos, which means "sound."
Homophones rhyme because they are words that sound alike.
When words rhyme, they have the same ending vowel sound.
All homophones are rhymes, but not all rhymes are
homophones.
Here are a few examples of common English homophones:
there/their/they're
which/witch
way/weigh
by/bye/buy
whether/weather
accept/except
one/won
you're/your
here/hear
The examples in sentence are
1. He was terrified that he ran bare (uncovered) footed when
a bear ( animal) was chasing him.
2. A wise man said that one should not (negation) tie a knot
(lump or knob, idiomatically getting married) unless one is
emotional stable.
3. He was too (of intensity) surprised to( preposition) see
two( of number) of them together even after separation.
4. He offers meat ( of animals) with salad whenever I go to
meet ( seeing someone)him.
5. It was right ( correct) to write ( using pen) for correcting
the nation during downfall.
 6. His face went pail ( yellowish, idiomatically get surprised)
observing a servant doing while master was moping the
floor with pale ( bucket)
7. During his reign ( tenure of a king) it used to rain (of
weather) now and then.
8. When you get access( reach) to authority excess( having
more of something) of domination is also discouraged by
your team.

Homonyms:
Homonyms are defined as words that have one form but two
or more unrelated meanings.Hononyms are ambiguous words
whose different senses are far apart from each other and not
obviously related to each other in any way. Words like tail and
take are homonyms.There is no conceptual connection
between its two meaning.
The word homonyms have been derived from Greek term
Homoios which means identical and onoma means name.
Homonyms are word that have same phonetic form
(homophones) or orthographic form(homographs) but different
unrelated meanings.
E.g. the word bear as a verb means to carry and as a noun it
means a large animal.
An example of homonyms,which is both homophone and
homograph,is fluke. Fluke is a fish as well as a flatworm.
The examples of homonyms in sentences are:
1. I cannot deposit money in bank ( financial institute) because I
live on the bank(of river) far away from main city.
2. I used bat ( cricket bat)as a defensive weapon against the
attack of a bat( flying creature).
3. The competition had no format as people of different race
(ethnic group) were competing in a race (competition of
speed).
4. Can you imagine a fantasy world in which a mole (small
animal) grows a mole (on skin)on his cheeks?
5. He as a teacher exaggerated ," Even pupil (of eye)and retina
of my vision can see the fault of my pupils(student).
6. Even as a comedian he felt that it was mean( cheap,not
good) to crack jokes that mean ( have meaning) nothing in
formal gathering.
7. He was so well( of health) before he got cold on bathing in
the chilling deep well(tube well).
8. He was right ( correct) taking the car to right
(direction)before the U turn.