Homonyms (sound like but are different)
Ensure that you save this for reference when writing resumes or essays etc.
Most of the Examination papers in English contain a question on the use of words of similar sound but different in meaning. The question usually takes a form something like the following:
Use these words in sentences to show that you know their meanings:
aisle diary principal stationary compliment
isle dairy principle stationery complement
A comprehensive list of these words is found in most good spelling books and it is not intended to repeat these here.
It is, however, important for the student to remember that when he is asked to use these words in sentences in order to illustrate their meaning, his sentences should be explicit enough as to leave no doubt in the examiner's mind that the writer knows the exact meaning of the words which he is using.
Take for example the words stationary, stationery. When used in the following sentences the meaning is not fully brought out.
(a) The bus is stationary, (b) I bought some stationery at the store.
Sentences (c) and (d) however, leave no doubt in the reader's mind that the writer is fully acquainted with the meaning of the words:
Wait until the bus is stationary before attempting to get off.
I will need a good deal of stationery to write all these letters.
Note also that it is a good plan to underline the significant word in the sentence.
See also Words
back to topHomonyms
Altar Alter Ant Aunt Arc Ark Ate Eight Auger Augur Aural Oral Baize Bays Bald Bawled Ball Bawl Band Banned Bard Barred Bare Bear Baron Barren Be Bee Beach Beech Bean Been Beer Bier Berry Bury Berth Birth Billed Build Blue Blew Bored Board Braid Brayed Break Brake Brews Bruise Bridal Bridle Broach Brooch Buy By/ Bye Capital Capitol Cellar Seller Census Sense Cereal Serial Chili Chilly Choral Coral Cite Sight / Site Coarse Course Complement Compliment Coun Counsel Deer Dear Die Dye Discreet Discrete Doe Dough Done Dun Draft Draught Dual Duel Earn Urn Ewe You Farther Father Faze Phase File Phial Find Fined Fir Fur Flaw Floor Flea Flee Flew Flu/ Flue Flex Flecks Flour Flower For Four Foreword Forward Fort Fought Foul Fowl Gait Gate Gamble Gambol Genes Jeans Gored Gourd Great Grate Groan Grown Hart Heart Hear Here Heel Heal Hi High Him Hymn Hoard Horde Hole Whole Holy Wholly Hour Our I Eye Idle Idol Incite Insight Knead Need Knew New Knight Night Knot Not Know No Leak Leek Lessen Lesson Levee Levy Links Lynx Loan Lone Loot Lute Made Maid Male Main Mane Manna Manner Marshal Martial Mask Masque Maw More Medal Meddle Meet Meat Might Mite Mist Missed Moose Mousse Muscle Mussel None Nun Oar Or Overdo Overdue Pail Pale Pain Pane Pair Pear Passed Past Peace Piece Peak Peek Pedal Peddle Plane Plain Principal Principle Profit Prophet Rain Reign Red Read Right Write Ring Wring Rode Road Role Roll Rouse Rows Rung Wrung Sail Sale Sauce Seen Scull Skull See Sea Shoe Shoo Side Sighed Slay Sleigh Soar Sore Sole Soul Some Sum Sort Sought Staid Stayed Stalk Stork Stare Stair Stationary Stationery Steal Steel Stile Style Sun Son Tail Tale Team Teem Than Then Their There Throne Thrown Tide Tied To Too / Two Toe Tow Vain Vein Vary Very Wail Whale Waste Waist Way Weigh Weak Week Weather Whether Where Wear Which Witch Who’s Whose Won One Would Wood You're Your
For those students that presented work on English we gathered a lot of useful reference information that became a STUDENT's COMPENDIUM here are some samples of student work
Please note there are some excellent links to assist with these pages
see at the end for the links for further information.
Please note there are some excellent links to assist with these pages
see at the end for the links for further information.
Applied Information Technology * AITStage1 * AITStage2 * AITStage3 * Cert II Business * Cert II Information Technology * Multimedia
Subjects * Art * Computing * English * Geography * Hass * History * Mathematics
Miscellaneous * Acronyms * Accreditation * ICT_Homework * Naplan * Lessons * Quizzes * Relief Lessons * Proverbs * Sayings * Student Compendium
Exams & Tests * Student Survival Kit * Web quests * Worksheets * Home Page * Peters Site * Soccer
Abbreviations Acronyms
Animals
Antonymns
Big Words for Small Words
Characteristics
Church
Countries Cities
Death
Diminutives
Famous
Figurative Expressions
Gender
Geographical
Gods and Goddesses
Government
Grammar and Syntax
Human Relationships
Inventions
Kings and Queens
Literary Sentences
Marriage
Medical
Metaphors
Miscellaneous
Nouns
Names
Nature
Negatives
Numbers
Opposites
Other
Patron Saints
Places
Possessive Case
Phobias
Professions
Proverbs
Science & Arts
Scientific Terms
Seven Wonders
Similies
Thesaurus
Synonyms
War Words
Wedding
Witty Sayings
Words to Verbs
Other
Home
Email Peter Faulks
Page last updated 2nd March 2020