In addition to giving you examples of homophoneswe tell you what they are and we explain how to use them correctly in a sentence.
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What are homophones?
They belong to the category of homonymous words, which are those that have the same or similar pronunciation (paronyms) but with different meanings. Among them we find the homographs and homophones.
They differ in their meaning, but the spelling is identical; that is, they are written exactly the same, but they refer to different things, for example “amo” (owner of a pet) and “amo” (first person singular of the verb “to love”).
They are pronounced the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Next we will expand on this type of words or expressions.
Some examples of homophones
‘a’, ‘ah’ or ‘ha’?
- ‘to’: Preposition
- ‘ah’: interjection
- ‘has’: verb to have
Record or record? Record or grave?
- Record: Carve, sculpt, record sounds or images
- record: verb record
- Levy: Impose a lien (tax)
- Serious: seriously
Hug or cuddle?
- hug: embrace with arms
- scorch: burn with flames
Did he fall, fell, fell, callus?
- Callo: verb to shut up
- fell: verb to fall
- Callus: thick skin (also eating)
- Key: Geographic feature
Have you, do or do?
- Has: Verb to have passed
- Do: Imperative verb to have. / Bunch, surface, particles or light rays of the same origin.
- Ace: Card from the deck or sports champion
Sentences with homophones
- Talking to soften, how softening the meat?
- You went to vote this Sunday? Or do you think it would be throw your vote?
- Err It’s human… but shoe it’s blacksmiths.
- Let’s see, Let’s see, Let’s see, silence! Has to to have Silence for the concert to begin.
- Until the moose, with its immense pole on the skull, he thinks he has not been cuckolded.
- Wanted to plus cake, plus I didn’t fit
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