Homo - nyms , phone, graph
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Homonym:
- homonym is a word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word Ex:
- lie - not true & horizontal position
- train - transport & train someone
- bat - animal & thing
- Address - location & speech
- Right - correct & direction
- Match - connecting someone & game
- Fly - insect & verb
- Well - water container & good
Homophone: (phone - sound in Greek)
same sound different spelling
- to (motion or direction) / too (as well or in addition) / two (number 2)
- who’s (contraction of who is or who has) / whose (belonging to or associated with which person)
- your (belonging to or associated with which person) / you’re (contraction of you are)
- know (knowing something) / no (opposite of yes)
- meet (getting together with someone) / meat (animal product as food)
- one (number 1) / won (past tense of win)
- their (belonging to or associated with people) / there (here or nearby) / they’re (contraction of they are)
- theirs (belonging to or associated with people) / there’s (contraction of there is)
- blew (past tense of blow) / blue (the colour)
- buy (purchasing) / by (proposition or adverb) / bye (farewell)
- cell (small room where a prisoner is kept) / sell (hand over in exchange for money)
- hear (listening to something) / here (in, at, or to this place or position)
- hour (time) / our (something that belongs to you and others)
- its (belonging to or associated with a thing) / it’s (contraction of “it is”)
- ad (advertisement) / add (increase)
- ate (past tense of eat) / eight (number 8)
- be (verb) / bee (the yellow/black flying animal)
Homograph: (graph - write in Greek)
same spelling but different meaning Ex: Content - happy & all that is contained inside something Desert - arid hot zone & when someone leaves Does - female deer plural & singular form of do Evening - late afternoon & making something even Minute - time & very small Read - present & past tense of read Present - at the moment & gift Permit - give permission & official document
