One of the confusing things about English is the number of words that sound the same but have totally different meanings. There and their; aloud and allowed; and sew and so, are just three examples that cause some confusion.<\/p>\n
In English, we call these words “homophones.” A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning and is sometimes spelt differently. For example: I don’t know where<\/strong> you are going to wear<\/strong> that dress!<\/p>\n Why don’t you check your understanding of homophones with the following three sentences. Each blank space counts for one letter in the missing word. \u00a0I’ve given you a hint by providing the first letter of each missing word already.<\/p>\n 1. \u00a0Anya asked if she could come t _<\/span> the concert t _ _<\/span>, but we only have t _ _<\/span> tickets.<\/p>\n 2. \u00a0They are getting t _ _ _ _<\/span> coats from the cloakroom over t _ _ _ _<\/span>.<\/p>\n 3. \u00a0We can’t tell w _ _ _ _ _ _<\/span> the w _ _ _ _ _ _<\/span> will be dry or wet.<\/p>\n If you really want to get some extra practise in, then take a look at this story and see if you can correct all the homophones. This is also a great opportunity to look up in a dictionary any of the words you are not familiar with. I’ll post the answers to the story and the sentences above in a later post.<\/p>\n Won<\/span> fine day when the son<\/span> was shining weigh<\/span> up in the sky, a pear<\/span> of hairs<\/span> came hopping buy<\/span>. Watching them from behind a fur<\/span> tree was an enormous grizzly bare<\/span>. He had bean<\/span> keeping an I<\/span> on them four<\/span> about a weak<\/span> from his cave in the hills.\u00a0Now hear<\/span> was his chance for a peace<\/span> of succulent hair<\/span> pie for dinner.<\/em><\/p>\n He crept from his hiding plaice<\/span> and charged at the hairs<\/span>. They took too<\/span> there<\/span> heals<\/span> and ran for the mane<\/span> rode<\/span>. Luckily a passing van stopped and gave the hairs<\/span> a lift and saved they\u2019re<\/span> skins.<\/em><\/p>\n The hairs<\/span> looked over there<\/span> shoulders too<\/span> sea<\/span> the bare<\/span> stamping his feet with rage. As they turned back they noticed sum<\/span> dead pheasants in a sack. The van driver was a poacher and was thinking, “Eye<\/span> rather fancy a nice tasty hair<\/span> and pheasant pie four<\/span>\u00a0dinner tonight,” as he reached four<\/span> his gun.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the confusing things about English is the number of words that sound the same but have totally different meanings. There and their; aloud and allowed; and sew and so, are just three examples that cause some confusion. In English, we call these words “homophones.” A homophone is a word that sounds the same…<\/p>\n