Homophone/Review

What is a homophone?

• Two words that sound the same and mean the same.

• Two words that sound different.

• Two words that sound the same but are spelled and mean different things.

• Two words that sound the same and spelled the same.

What sentence uses the bolded word correctly?

• The wind blue the trashcan down.

• Sometimes a rainbow will appear in the sky after it reins.

• Lily pulled on the reins to get the horse to stop.

• My favorite color is light blew.

Read this sentence from a paragraph: The main job of the leaves is to take in energy from the sun. What word sounds the same as main?

• man

• mane

• mine

• manner

What is the root word in discovered?

• dis

• ed

• cover

• discover

Which two words sound the same but have different meanings?

• weather, where

• frame, first

• son, sun

• no, now

Which two words are homophones?

• flour, flower

• green, grain

• main, men

• saw, sea

Which two words sound the same but are spelled differently and having different meanings?

• blue, bored

• flour, fly

• bear, by

• knight, night

Read the following sentence. What sentence uses the correct homophone in bold?

• Please meat me at 6.

• My brother is ate years old.

• I am a vegetarian, which means I do not eat meat. 

• My sun is three years old.

Which two words are synoymns?

• ordinary, common

• easy, difficult

• harsh, mild

• wet, cold

Megan is thrilled for the holiday break. What is a synonym for thrilled?

• somber

• upset

• sad

• excited