What is a homophone?
Clue: it’s not a gay cell phone! LOL!
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A homophone consists of two words that sound alike but have different spellings and/or meanings. An example of a homophone in English is great, meaning really good, and grate, meaning to cut food into tiny pieces through a tool called a grater.
Homophone are words that have the same Pronunciation but different meaning, Example: sea, see Eat, it.
homophone are words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins or spellings.
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Words with similar pronounciation but different meanings. There, their and they're is a very common example.
Instead of explaining, I shall provide several examples and you can understand yourself. Sell - Cell Here - Hear. To - Too. Sea - See. Be - Bee. Eight - Ate. Now, did you get it?
Homophones are words with the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, and spelling like sight -site, too- two,it's-its.
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Homophones are a few words that are pronounced the same but spelt slightly different and have completely doffeeent meanings Eg Bolder and Boulder . Bolder means more Bold but Boulder is a large rock . They can cause confusion when used in the same sentence - “ Superman made the Bolder decision to throw a Boulder at Batman “ A very silly but valid example 😀😀😀
Homophones can be defined as words that share the same pronunciation but has different meaning and spelling. Example: hear and here. You can see they have totally different meaning but has same pronunciation.
