Homophone Dictation
Write down two words for the one you hear (with two different spellings). In other words write a pair of homophones!
Some fairly easy ones: be & bee war & wore steel & steal their & there (& they're) bare & bear some & sum wait & weight blue & blew waist & waste board & bored scent & sent (& cent) billed & build wood & would ant & aunt band & banned guest & guessed weak & week mind & mined hare & hair air & heir (& ere) meet & meat (& mete) pair & pear (& pare) fair & fare peace & piece missed & mist higher & hire plain & plane knows & nose (& no's) tail & tale flour & flower threw & through sees & seas (& seize) |
Some more difficult ones: coarse & course assent & ascent boy & buoy allowed & aloud cereal & serial rain & rein (& reign) clause & claws mourning & morning colonel & kernel council & counsel knight & night muscle & mussel pray & prey led & lead pole & poll (& Pole) medal & meddle isle & aisle (& I'll) vain & vein (& vane) sweet & suite packed & pact principle & principal soar & sore soared & sword quay & key (& cay) bolder & boulder rode & road (& rowed) alter & altar rose & rows (& roes) grown & groan side & sighed place & plaice grease & Greece |
© Nigel J. Ross, 2003
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