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. Be Grammar-Confident Leisurely Crash Course in Written English Copyright, Terry Gibson, BA, MEd . Welcome to Course D-3 . . . . . Grefs Open GLOSSARY in Course C-1 . . . . .TWIN AND TRIPLET . HOMOPHONE CONFUSION . . .. . . .D3a In each set the words all sound alike! . ... ... ... ..Meaning and spelling, not. . . . ..D3b Dictionary: choosing the correct ones to write a clever poem using homophones. Lots of rhymes provided! e.g. . . Meaning of rain, reign, rein, sight, site, citeC .     Click to Move Within This Course   D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8  Active when bright   Click to Find Other Courses   Course A Course B Course C Course E ..

Swan's Practical English Usage, published by Oxford is the 1995 text that serves as reference. It is recent but will be replaced within the next few years as we get more and more muddled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Both British and American Forms Updated .

Assignment D3 Homophones ( By Request )

REFERENCES: Homonyms and Homophones, Different? What are homonyms? Homonyms are words that have the same spelling and pronunciation but very different meanings. We can buy a can of beans. Under a spell, he can spell long words. I long for long holidays. Please note the high note in that song. We saw the saw blade break. A break in the weather was a real treat. Doctors treat injuries. (Often one is a noun, and the other a verb.) . Then of coarse / course, this course is easy until we /fined / find both uses, a find when someone is fined. Twins Triplets, and Mistaken Identities So, what is a homophone? It is won / one of a pare / pear / pair, or / oar set of words that sound the same but / butt have different spelling, and of coarse / course, meaning. This is Not / knot yet a complete list: We fined / find new / knew /gnu examples awl / all the time / thyme. Caution: a bad choice is at least a spelling mistake, if confusion does not result. Dictionary please / pleas! .

OVER 200 HOMOPHONES                                       1    here, hear     air, ere, err     seen, scene               no, know     write, right, rite, wright     who's, whose               its, it's     to, two, too     grate, great               lie, lye     their, there, they're     peak, peek               or, oar     your, you're, yore     wrote, rote               sea, see     by, buy, bye     wine, whine               in, inn     reign, rain. rein,     blue, blew               we, wee     I, aye, eye     sweet, suite               so, sew     you, ewe, yew     mite, might               of, off     more, mower     word, ward               2    all, awl     site, sight, cite     read, reed               but, butt     coarse / course     herd, heard               aid, aide     pare, pair, pear     find, fined               not, knot     ware, where, wear     what, watt               feet, feat     knew, gnu, new     beet, beat               be, bee     nose, knows     way, weigh               cot, caught     mall, maul, moll     told, tolled               gone, gun     flu, flew, flue     build, billed               or, oar     sent, cent, scent     died, dyed               red, read     for, fore, four     seed, cede               3   led, lead     chased, chaste     warn, worn               hour, our     picture, pitcher (2)     road, rode               hall, haul     aloud, allowed     bean, been               just, jest     nice, gneiss     moat, mote               hail, hale     broach, brooch     mold, mould               real, reel     straight, strait     team, teem               lean, lein     missed, mist     road, rode               pain, pane     threw, through     hole, whole               call, caul     weight, wait     loop, loupe               sail, sale     sickle, cycle     rest, wrest               4   pray, prey     rot, wrought     way, weigh               wet, whet     night, knight     eight, ate               sum, some     rhyme, rime     bread, bred               pour, pore     break, brake     flower, flour               half, have     side, sighed     phase, faze               tale, tail     weather, whether     style, stile                 rap, wrap      muscle, mussel      clique, click                roll, role     strait, straight        cash, cache               I'll, isle     please, pleas     clImb, clime               sale, sail     stalk, stock     whale, wail               5    son, sun     grown, groan     ring, wring                tern, turn     piece, peace     bot, bought                hare, hair      lesson, lessen     bite, bight                pale, pail     which, witch     hunt, haunt               jam, jamb     world, whorled     plum, plumb               tax, tacks     clod, clawed     main, mane               peel, peal     warm, worm     rung, wrung               ball, bawl     need, knead     week, weak               wok, walk     bow, bough     hawk, hock               odd, awed     stock, stalk     bear, bare               6   hew, hue       council, counsel      seem, seam               flee, flea      medal, meddle      root, route               one, won      chute, shoot      would, wood               tale, tail      serge, surge     Rome.roam               lay, lei     horse, hoarse     steel, steal                pole, pol     corner, coroner     steer, stear               lap, Lapp     affect, effect     then, than               fin, Finn     finish, Finnish      stake, steak               air, err       were, where, wear       reek.wreak                aid, aide      current, currant       . sign, sine               7   stare, stair     tot, taut, taught       flour, flower                                                                                                                                                                 more coming?                     If you spot a duplicate, please report it. Reward.       .

. . . . ... . . . . . . . ... . . . . . ... . . . . . . . ... . .. Assignment D3a . . . . ... . . . . . . . ... . (under construction ) Twins, Triplets homophone confusion when they sound alike, with a chart with some of them, dictionary) ------------ D3a ASSIGNMENT Correct the following: Perhaps ewe mite sea sum inn hear. Reed it, sew wee here the wards. Eye no its -ment two aide awl off yew too fined mower wear there e-roars are herd, butt knot scene. -ment is listed in Webster's and Oxford dictionary. ( Answer on request but check the chart above.) D3b Dictionary ASSIGNMENT If some of them inspire a poem THAT SHOWS MEANINGS, (rhymes are provided.) Have fun! .

. .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . Again, With Feeling: . . .Please proofread all that you write! .. . . . . ..Use your dictionary! your ..............That's all right, you say, we have spell-check. ...............And that is why we have D3! Homophones!. .......Homophones are correctly spelt (UK) and Spellcheck ........ .catches only spelling mistakes, not wrong words.

. We recomend that you call up CourseD-1 in Allpoetry when at least five parts have opened it for credits. and work the assignments THERE to make the work easier to submit. Please submit answers at once to AP Class box directly, if RANDOM have been approved forf trophy. We have had trouble receiving graded works in the submit-box in AP Class toward the trophy. By being graded in the box, they cannot be lost! For full feedback, please also IM your E-mail address to DeeCrepit. Feedback will be sent to you there Your five best assignments are now the minimum for a trophy. There have been eight parts in each of the courses from the start. That means the pressure is off as you do the advanced #7 and #8 worth a percentage of 50 bonus points each, dependent on your results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back to Top . . . . . . . .. . Copyright: Tiled wallpaper drawn by Terry Gibson 1996