 In linguistics, a homonym is a word that has different

meanings. In the strict sense, one of a group of words

that share the same spelling and pronunciation but
have different meanings
Few examples
 Bow -front of a boat
Bow- tied with ribbon
Bow – shoots arrows
 Lie- not true
Lie- lie down
Homophones with examples
 A homophone is a word that has the same sound as
another word but is spelled differently and has a
different meaning:
 to/two/too
 there/their/they're
 pray/prey
Be the first to answer
 Fine ( Homonym or homophone ) and Why
 Book
 Right
 Fair
 Mummy
 There
Read the examples again
 Accept (to receive) and Except (excluding)
 Acts (things done) and Ax (chopping tool)
 Ad (advertisement) and Add (short for addition)
 Affect (to influence) and Effect (result)
 Aid (to assist) and Aide (an assistant)
 Air (stuff we breath) and Heir (one who will inherit)
 Aisle (walkway) and Isle (island)
Again your time to answer .
Diligent students would be
appreciated
 Capital
 Days
 Die
 Seen
 Band
Share your knowledge
Easy
1)We _______ several trucks on the highway.
A)passedB)past
2)The trail goes _________ the mountains.
A)threwB)through
3)________ your history teacher?A)Who'sB)Whose
4) Is that __________ book?
A)you'reB)your
Difficult
 He ___ deeply as he remembered their summer in
Paris.
a. sighed
b. Side
 He had no food, the poor ___.
a. retch
b. wretch
Cont…..
 It was an ___ light that shone over the street.
a. eerie
b. Erie
c. Eyrie
 If you do not wash your skin properly the ___ will
become clogged.
a. pores
b. pours
Medium
 Are those flowers ___ or are they artificial?
a. real
b. Reel
 A ___ of children attacked the treats on the picnic
table.
a. hoard
b. Horde
 Have you ___ that bread prices will be going up again
this week?
a. heard
b. herd
Use pairs of homophones in a
sentence.
 Maid, made – the maid made up the bed.
 Right, write
 Steel, steal
 Lessen, lesson
 Cell, sell
Guess the word (homonym)
 Let’s ___ soccer after school. (a) participate in a sport
 The author wrote a new ___. (b) the theatre piece
 Ouch! The mosquito ___ me! (a) a tiny amount
 I’ll have a little ___ of sugar in my tea. (b) past tense
of bite
answers
 Play and bit
Last exercise
 - I didn't ____ what she said.
hear
here
 - They forgot to take ____ printouts.
there
their
they're
 - Venison is the meat from a ____.
dear
deer
 - The house is by the ____.
see
sea
 - She held the ____ in her hand.
reigns
rains
reins
 - They tried to ____ the painting.
steel
steal
 He had to ____ the button on.
sow
sew
Either could be used here.
 - I hope the ____ is fine.
weather
whether