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Title: Homophones Homonyms and Homographs


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HomophonesHomonyms andHomographs
  • By ereadingworksheets.com

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What do all of these words have in common? How
are they the same?
  • Homophone
  • Homonym
  • Homograph
  • Each begins with the root word homo.
  • Homo means same.
  • All of these words have to do with sameness.

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Homophone
  • Phone sound
  • Telephone across sound
  • Homophone same sound
  • Words that sound the same but have different
    spellings are homophones.
  • Examples petal / peddal or to / two / and too.

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Homonym
  • Nym name
  • Pseudonym fake name
  • Homonyms same name
  • Words that sound the same and have the same
    spellings are homonyms.
  • Examples bear / bear or stalk / stalk

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Homographs
  • graph writing
  • biography life writing
  • homograph same writing
  • Words that have the same spellings but sound
    different are homographs.
  • Examples wind / wind or bass / bass
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