🎤 Homophones

This lesson introduces homophones and usage rules to improve spelling accuracy and contextual language understanding.

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Homophones are words, which sound identical but are spelt differently and have different meanings.

A homophone is a word that sounds like another word but has a

different meaning. A list of homophones are given hereunder

1. Sew Sow 26. Toe Tow

2. Aisle Isle 27. Pair Pare

3. Profit Prophet 28. Altar Alter

4. Hair Heir 29. Bolder Boulde

5. Colonel Kernel 30. Pain Pane

6. Course Coarse 31. Pray Prey

7. Complime Complement 32. Bow Bough

8. Sauce Source 33. Caught Court

9. Idol Idle 34. Bare Bear

10. Dough Dove 35. Vale Veil

11. Flower Flour 36. Tied Tide

12. Vein Vain, vane 37. Suite Sweet

13. Disease Decease 38. Paw Poor

14. Flea Flee 39. So Sew

15. Fair Fare 40. To Too

16. Key Quay 41. Made Maid

17. Cereal Serial 42. Saw Soar

18. Boy Buoy 43. Eight Ate

19. Bear Bare 44. Hoarse Horse

20. Air Heir 45. Knight Night

21. Steal Steel 46. Warn Worn

22. Place Plaice 47. Grate Great

23. Tale Tail 48. Isle I’ll

24. Son Sun 49. Beach Beech

25. Peal Peel 50. Mail Male

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EXERCISE

Fill in the blanks with the suitable words from the blanks:

1. There is a big fire burning in the (grate, great).

2. You can eat the but give me the knife to the skin (pare, pear).

3. He was charged with stealing a of cotton and was released on

(bale, bail).

4. The artist’s showed a picture of a politician trying to votes

(canvass, canvas)

5. He is the of a plan to make slow pupils understand the difference

between a and a multiplier (deviser, divisor)

6. There is thunder and and dark stormy sky shows no sign of

(lightening, lightning).

7. The of our college is a man of (principal, principles).

8. She wrote a on the history of peace (treatise, treaties).

Underline the correct word:

1. What medicine did the doctor prescribe / proscribe for her?

2. Gandhi did not like corporeal / coporal punishment

3. Milton’s poetry is full of classical allusions / illusions.

4. Do you know the Archimedes principle / principal?

5. I passed the intermediate course / coarse.

6. This is not officious / official.

7. Canvass / Canvas cloth is used for tents.

8. Ramesh always sits beside / besides her.

9. The minister is appraised / apprised of the situation.

10. This film is an adaptation / adaptation of novel.

Summary Cheat Sheet

• Homophones sound alike but differ in spelling and meaning.
• Choose the right form by grammar and context clues.
• Practice with sentence-based corrections.

References

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