Our bear cannot bear to be bare at any hour. Now let's hear a sentence where we have all five words with their different meanings: If we take our bear example, we can add another word to the group: Usually homophones are in groups of two ( our, hour), but occasionally they can be in groups of three ( to, too, two) or even more. In the next example, the two words have the same sound and spelling, but different meanings:īear (noun: large, heavy animal with thick fur) Our (possessive adjective: belonging to us) Homophones are words that have exactly the same sound (pronunciation) but different meanings and (usually) spelling.įor example, the following two words have the same sound, but different meanings and spelling: Elkins, Stanley.Homophone (noun): one of two or more words with the same pronunciation but different spellings and/or meanings (for example weak and week).'How to Win.' The Massachusetts Review, 1975. 'The Country Husband.' The New Yorker, 1955. 'Waltzing the Cat.' Washington Square Press, 1999, New York. 'He was wearing a new hat of a pretty biscuit shade, for it never occurred to him to _ anything of a practical color he had put it on for the first time and the rain was spoiling it.' - Katherine Anne Porter.'A pigeon landed nearby. It hopped on its little red feet and pecked into something that might have been a dirty piece of stale _ or dried mud.' - Isaac Bashevis Singer.'Nancy held the cup to her mouth and _ into the cup.' - William Faulkner.

'The conductor had his knotted signal cord to pull, and the motorman _ the foot gong with his mad heel.' - Saul Bellow.'This was the time when outfields were larger than they are today and well-hit balls would roll for a long time, giving runners ample time to round the _ for a home run.' - Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney.'Without the shelter of those trees, there is a great exposure-back yards, clotheslines, woodpiles, patchy sheds and barns and privies-all _, exposed, provisional looking.' - Alice Munro.'Her two spare dresses were gone, her comb was gone, her checkered coat was gone, and so was the mauve hair-_ with a mauve bow that had been her hat.' - Vladimir Nabokov.'The barn was bigger than a church, and the fall's fresh hay _ were stacked to the roof in the side mows.' - John Updike.'On a Saturday morning soon after he came to live with her, he turned over her garbage while she was at the grocery store and _ rancid bacon drippings out of a small Crisco can.' - Pam Durban.'In the long years between, she had fashioned many fine dresses-gowned gay girls for their conquests and robed fair brides for the _.Sterrett's, in Rome, and gave him her coat to hold.' - Willa Cather Parmenter laughed at his _ to their summer at Mrs. 'he stewardess was moving down the _ , like a trained nurse taking temperatures in a hospital ward, to see that they were all properly strapped in for the take-off.' - Martha Gellhorn.'He sat down and leaned forward, pulling the chair's rear legs into the _ so that the waitress could get by.' - Stanley Elkins.'He seemed to want to recapture the cosseted feeling he'd had when he'd been sick as a child and she would serve him flat ginger _ , and toast soaked in cream, and play endless card games with him, using his blanket-covered legs as a table.' - Alice Elliott Dark.'The _ gets out of the way, picking her skirt out of the rubble of children at her feet.' - Rosellen Brown.'Francis wondered what _ a psychiatrist would have for him.' - John Cheever.I rented it because the _ said this: 'Small house in the trees with a garden and a fireplace. In homophones, the prefix homo means the.

'I live in the Oakland Hills in a tiny house on a street so windy you can’t drive more than ten miles per hour. Homophones are words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings and are sometimes spelled differently.

“He simply sat down on the ledge and forgot everything _ the marvelous mystery.” - Lawrence Sargent Hall.

Through - passing from one place to another Sun - the star that lights the solar system Plane - flight machine plane flat surface Patients - person treated in a hospital or by a doctor Materiel - supplies for an organization, particularly the military

Bases - four stations on a baseball fieldĬapitol - building where legislature meetsįax - a document transmitted via telephone

Same pronunciation different spelling