•accept/except: 

Accept is a verb that means to take or receive. Except is used as a preposition or conjunction to mean but or exclude.
•affect/effect: Affect is a verb (in most cases) and indicates influence. Effect is a noun (in most cases) and is the result of an action or change.
•compliment/complement: Compliment means to say something nice about someone or something. Complement means something that enhances or completes.
•then/than: Then is a versatile word used as an adverb, noun or adjective to show the order of how things happened. Than is a subordinating conjunction you can
•to/too: To can be a preposition or infinitive when used with a verb. Too is an adverb or a synonym for also.
•you're/your: You're is a contraction for you are. Your is a pronoun.

Homographs and Homonyms

Homophones are often confused with homographs and homonyms. These terms are similar, but there are some important differences to consider.
Homographs are words which are spelled the same, but have different meanings and are not necessarily pronounced the same. One example is the word bow, w
Homonyms are words with the same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings, which means they are simultaneously homographs and homophones. Ta
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Activities for Teachers

Native English speakers often grasp the concept of homophones with minimal effort, but students learning English as a second language may need extra practice.
•Write the homophones on index cards, then use the cards to play a game like Memory or Go Fish.
•Play Pictionary by dividing students into teams. Ask the groups to take turns illustrating and guessing homophone pairs.
•Use sample sentences with blank spaces to help students learn how identify the correct homophones based on contextual cues.
•Have students make an A to Z list of homophone pairs using all of the English homophones they know as well as examples from their native language.

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 • Now that you know what they are, here are 40 examples of homographs:

• accent - stress or emphasis/a manner of speaking or pronunciation influenced by the region in which one lives or grew up

•agape - wide open/a Greek word meaning “love”

•attribute - a characteristic or quality/to think of as belonging to or originating in some person, place or thing
•axes - the plural of ax or axe/the plural of axis
•bass - a deep voice or tone/a kind of fish
•bat - a piece of sporting equipment used in baseball/a winged animal associated with vampires
•bow - to bend at the waist/the front of a boat/a pair of tied loops
•buffet - to hit, punch or slap/a self-serve food bar
•bustier - an undergarment/more busty
•compact - small/to make small/a small case for holding makeup
•compound - to mix or combine/an enclosed area with a building or group of buildings inside
•content - happy or satisfied/all that is contained inside something
•contract - an agreement/to get, acquire or incur
•coordinates - brings into proper place or order/a set of numbers used to calculate position
•desert - a hot, arid region/to leave
•digest - a condensed version of some information/to change food in the stomach into a form that can be absorbed by the body
•discount - a reduction in price/to underestimate the significance of or give no credence to
•does - female deer (plural)/present, third person singular form of the verb “do”
•down - in a lower position/soft, furry feathers
•entrance - the place of entry/to bewitch, delight or enrapture
•evening - late afternoon/making more even
•fine - very good/sharp or keen/delicate or subtle/a sum of money paid to settle a matter
•frequent - occurring regularly/to visit a place with regularity
•incense - a substance that produces a pleasant odor when burned/to infuriate or make very angry
• lead - to go first with followers behind/a type of metal
• minute - 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour/extremely small
• moped - acted sad or gloomy/a bicycle with a motor
• object - a thing you can see or touch/a goal/a noun that receives the action of a verb/to be opposed to
• proceeds - advances or continues on/the money or profit gained from some sale or venture
• produce - to create or make/fresh fruits and vegetables
• project - a plan or proposal/to throw or hurl forward/to cause a shadow or image to fall upon a surface
• putting - the present participle of put/the present participle of putt
• number - a numeral/to count/more numb
• refuse - waste or garbage/to reject or decline to accept
• row - a fight/to propel a boat forward using oars/a line
• second - 1/60th of a minute/after the first
• subject - under some authority or control/to bring under authority or control/to make liable or vulnerable/a topic/the noun in a sentence about which something is said in the  predicate
• tear - to rip/a drop of water from the eye
• wind - to turn/moving air
• wound - turned/an injury
• This is just a small sample of all the homographs that exist. There are hundreds more just in English, not to mention the homographs that exist in other languages and the ones that exist between languages.
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• Homographs, Homophones and Homonyms
• It’s easy to confuse homographs with homophones and homonyms, but if you think about each word, they make more sense.
• Homo-, as you know, means “same,” so the end of each word tells us what is the same.
• Homograph - “Graph” has to do with writing or drawing. When you think about a graph, you envision a picture. If you read graphic novels, you know they have pictures. Someone drew them. So “homograph” means “same picture” or “same writing.” Homographs are written (spelled) the same. (To make matters more confusing, homographs that are spelled the same but sound different are also called  heteronyms.)
• Homophone - “Phone” has to do with sound. When you talk on the telephone, you hear the other person’s voice. When people in the 1800s used a gramophone, they were listening to music. And phonology is the study of a language’s sounds. So “homophone” means “same sound.” Homophones are pronounced the same.
• Homonym - “Nym” means “name.” Stevie Nicks and Stevie Wonder have the same first name, but they clearly are different people. It’s the same with homonyms. They’re spelled the same (like homographs)  and pronounced the same (like homophones), but have different meanings. “Bow,” for example, means both “to bend at the waist” and “the front of a boat.”
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tail/tale: My cat was crazily chasing his tail while I read a fairy tale to my children.
weather/whether: I don’t know whether to bring a jacket or not. The weather looks unpredictable today.
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Frequently Confused Homophones

There are several homophones in the English language that almost everyone gets confused at some point. These frequently
confused homophones include:
accept/except: Accept is a verb that means to take or receive. Except is used as a preposition or conjunction to mean but or
exclude.
affect/effect: Affect is a verb (in most cases) and indicates influence. Effect is a noun (in most cases) and is the result of an action
or change.
compliment/complement: Compliment means to say something nice about someone or something. Complement means
something that enhances or completes.
then/than: Then is a versatile word used as an adverb, noun or adjective to show the order of how things happened. Than is a 
subordinating conjunction you can use to make comparisons.
to/too: To can be a preposition or infinitive when used with a verb. Too is an adverb or a synonym for also.
you're/your: You're is a contraction for you are. Your is a pronoun.

Homographs and Homonyms

Homophones are often confused with homographs and homonyms. These terms are similar, but there are some important
differences to consider.
Homographs are words which are spelled the same, but have different meanings and are not necessarily pronounced the same.
One example is the word bow, which has several meanings pronounced two different ways, such as a weapon for shooting
arrows, or to bend at the waist.
Homonyms are words with the same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings, which means they are simultaneously
homographs and homophones. Take for example the word band, meaning a group or a ring.
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Activities for Teachers

Native English speakers often grasp the concept of homophones with minimal effort, but students learning English as a second
language may need extra practice. Consider the following ideas:
Write the homophones on index cards, then use the cards to play a game like Memory or Go Fish.
Play Pictionary by dividing students into teams. Ask the groups to take turns illustrating and guessing homophone pairs.
Use sample sentences with blank spaces to help students learn how identify the correct homophones based on contextual cues.
Have students make an A to Z list of homophone pairs using all of the English homophones they know as well as examples from