Unit 8: homonyms, homophones, homographs

What is the homophone of the word "bough"?

What is the homophone of the word "whirled"?

The pond was __________ with tadpoles after the frog eggs hatched.

• teeming

• teaming

Choose the one sentence which is INCORRECT.

• A. I will take a course in economics next semester.

• B. Follow the river’s coarse.

• C. Sandpaper is always coarse.

•       D. No mistakes.

Use the phonetic symbols /a'laud/ to fill in the following sentence. "You are not ________to talk during the test.

The word "deck" as in deck of cards and "deck" as in flight deck is the example of :

• homophone

• homograph

• homonym

Choose the option which contains a mistake? If no mistake, choose D.

• A. There are holes in your socks.

      

•   B. I found a whole set of dishes at a garage sale.

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• C. He ate the hole pie.

   

•      D. No mistakes

What are the words that have the same sound, different spelling and different meaning?

• homographs

• homophones

• homonyms

What is the homograph of the word "live"?

What is the homophone of the word "site"?