Homophones vs homographs_ppt
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Homophones and Homographs
What’s the difference?
What are some examples of each?
Homophones• Homophones are words that sound alike but they have different meanings and different
spellings.
Won and OneThere and Their
Too, Two, and To
Homophones
See
Meet Meat
Sea
Homophones
BlewBlue
Pair Pear
Homographs• Homographs are words that may or may not sound alike but have the same spelling but a
different meaning.
Read and ReadTire and Tire
Tone and Tone
Homographs
BowBow
Scale Scale
Homographs
TearTear
Row Row
Which ones are
homophones?
Bear
New
Saw
Hear Toe
Pit
Can
Right
Which ones are
homographs?
Bear
New
Saw
Hear Toe
Pit
Can
Right
