Language Awareness - Homophones

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Homophones are words that sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings e.g. flower and flour.

You need to learn these words as there are no spelling rules to help you remember them.

Here is a list of 70 common homophones:

1. air, heir
2. aisle, I'll, isle
3. allowed, aloud
4. aren't, aunt
5. ate, eight
6. awe, oar, or, ore
7. be, bee
8. bean, been
9. bear, bare
10. berry, bury
11. blew, blue
12. break, brake
13. buy, by, bye
14. caught, court
15. cereal, serial
16. check, cheque
17. die, dye
18. draft, draught
19. earn, urn
20. fair, fare
21. find, fined
22. flew, flu
23. flower, flour
24. for, four
25. genes, jeans
26. guessed, guest
27. hair, hare
28. hay, hey
29. hear, here
30. higher, hire
31. hour, our
32. key, quay,
33. knight, night
34. maid, made
35. new, knew
36. none, nun
37. oh, owe
38. packed, pact
39. packs, pax
40. pair, pear
41. pause, paws
42. pea, pee
43. peace, piece
44. place, plaice
45. plum, plumb
46. practice, practise
47. profit, prophet
48. raw, roar
49. read, reed
50. road, rode, rowed
51. sale, sail
52. sauce, source
53. saw, soar, sore
54. scene, seen
55. sew, so, sow
56. sole, soul
57. son, sun
58. steal, steel
59. tea, tee
60. there, their, they're
61. through, threw
62. to, too, two
63. wail, wale, whale
64. waist, waste
65. war, wore
66. ware, wear, where
67. whether, weather
68. which, witch
69. would, wood
70. write, right

Exercises

A. Choose the right word or words to fill in the gaps in the sentences below.

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B. In the following sentences there is a deliberate mistake. Correct the sentences.

C. Make a sentence with each of the following homophones.

 

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