Homophones

Homophones

Objective:

Identify and use homophones appropriately in context.

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What do you know about homophones?

Homophone

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning and may also differ in spelling. The two words may be spelled the same, as in rose and rose, or differently, as in rain, reign, and rein.

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Find these homophones in your dictionary. See what they mean:

• bow, bough

• pair, pear, pare

• fair, fear, fare

Let's Do

Choose the correct spelling of the words in brackets to complete each sentence.

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Father bought us a

of rabbits.

(bow, bough) (pair, pear, pare) (fair, fear, fare)

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Blue birds sat on the

of the tree.

(bow, bough) (pair, pear, pare) (fair, fear, fare)

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Before we have lunch or dinner we usually

our heads in prayer.

(bow, bough) (pair, pear, pare) (fair, fear, fare)

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He used a sharp knife to

the potatoes.

(bow, bough) (pair, pear, pare) (fair, fear, fare)

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The word

refers to a range of foods of a particular type.

(bow, bough) (pair, pear, pare) (fair, fear, fare)

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Sometimes I eat a

and an apple with my breakfast.

(bow, bough) (pair, pear, pare) (fair, fear, fare)

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The weather was

and sunny in the afternoon but was chilly at night.

(bow, bough) (pair, pear, pare) (fair, fear, fare)

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