Vocabulary: The 27 most common HOMOPHONES in English
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- One of the trickiest aspects of learning English is mastering homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently. A classic example is “there”, “their”, and “they’re”. These three words are pronounced exactly the same way but mean completely different things. Even native English speakers often misspell homophones like “your” and “you’re”, “weather” and “whether”, “then” and “than”, “to”, “too”, and “two”, and the list goes on. Once you know the difference between all of these, you will notice people’s mistakes everywhere. So don’t be that person. Learn homophones once and for all by watching this lesson, and practice by doing the quiz afterwards, at www.engvid.com...
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[Whistles] Wow, what a good book. I should buy another one of these. What? Oh, hi. James from engVid. I was just looking at my book, here, and it seems E has a question. Let's go take a look. So, what's that, E? "I won the race?", "I one the race?" - you don't know the difference? Do you know the difference? Today we're going to work on homophones. I'm going to explain what they are and give you some very common examples that you've probably made mistakes with, but I'm going to help you today to clear them up. You ready? Let's go to the board.
Oh, I said "homophones", and I know there are some of you out there that are grammar nerds, and you're going to say: "Oh, homophones, homograms, dah, dah." I'm going to break it down and say: When we talk about "homo" it means the same; the same. And in this case, a "homograph" is something that is written graphic. It is written like a picture. And when we say "homophone", I'm sure you have a cellphone, like, you know, cellphone. We call it a "phone" because it's the sound. With a cellphone, we deal with sounds; and with homographs we deal with what is written.
Today I really want to concentrate more on homophones, which are words that are going to sound the same... So, let's take a look: Homophones are words that sound the same, but they are different. I forgot a period, here. And an example would be "bare" and "bear". Okay? Or: "whether" and "weather". And I've had many students ask me: What's the difference. They go: "How do you pronounce it? I... I know it looks the same or almost the same." And I say: "It sounds the same." They go: "Why? They mean vastly or very different things." I go: "Yes, you're right, and I'm going to help you see the difference." Now, the problem with a homophone, of course, is when you say it, you don't know how it's spelt, and we use the spelling to tell us that it's a different meaning. The secret to that is context, and I'll go through a couple of examples a little later on and show what I mean by: If you listen to the context, you will have an idea of what they mean.
As I said: homographs are words that are written the same, but have different meanings. But because I'm not going to go into homographs right now, I'm not going to give you the examples. I'm going to give you the examples for the homophones, here. And if you notice, I have something that looks like a calculator or, you know, some buttons you can press on a dial for a phone. And I did that because, in some of these, we can use the homophones to show or illustrate the difference.
So, let's do the first one, here. "One" and "won". If you noticed, E had a problem with: "I won the race?", "I one the race?" To be honest, once again, it's a homophone; the sound is exactly the same, but the context will tell us what the difference is. "One" is clearly number one. I have one friend - a number. But when I won a race, because it's a competition, I can go: "Oh, it's 'won'." That's our first homophone.
We did number one; let's look at number two. Because I'm smart like that, I did "two" and "to". In this case, "two", the number two - you know it? Right? One, two, three. We have another "to", this one, here, which can be used both in an infinitive form and a preposition. Examples. "I want to buy" is an infinitive form. "We're going to the store". Right? We can use that as a preposition "to"... "To" or "from", when we're using it like that.
And this one I like as well: "too", "t-o-o". I say this is what we call there's too many o's or it's excessive in English. Meaning that it's more than you want. An example is: "It's too... My coffee is too hot; I cannot drink it." Cool? All right. That's the number "two". Notice the homophone? They all sound the same. So, if you're going: "Well, why is he teaching us?" It's just so you know, when you see these words, do not change how you say them; the pronunciation is the same, but know when you're writing them or in the sentence you're saying them... […]
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Your and you're, there and they're - used to give me a lot of headaches. One time, about 12 years ago, my English teacher told me that you have to pronounce 'your and you're' differently. Your, I was told, must be pronounced as "Yo'r" and you're as "U'r", which didn't make any sense. And only a couple of months ago I finally figured this out, mostly by practicing and watching native speakers pronounce these words...over and over again. Now I can finally relax and be comfortable with how it supposed to sound. This "revelation" even boosted my confidence.
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My favourite homophone was: life is a mystery = life is a Mr. E : ) sound same
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For example write and right bear and bare these are homophones
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Whole & hole
Know & no
Our & hour
Cell & sell
Meet & meat
Sea & see
Some & sum
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I think that hour and our sound different
Know & knew
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Miikki Mmilennkovskii that’s different
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I just figures out that is easier to explain/understand homophones by looking at other langages and it can be easier for foreing languages speakers to master them and easier to be confuse if you only speak english !
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Poor-pore,
Lie(speak)-lie(lying down),
Route-root,
Wet-weight,
No-know,
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Thanks!!!.."here" and "hear" always had been my problem.
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It sounds much more like a bad luck instead of good....
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There are a lot, like
pear pair,
where were,
sight site,
noes knows,
would wood,
wait weight,
for four...etc.
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Thank you ,you know, allthough, i have known these homophones before but i did a miistake in the quiz talking about ice cream and what confused me was ( THERE) Ii mean that i finally dicovered that ( THERE) here is a place not a pronoun
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1. A weather
2. B buy
3. B they're
4. B its
5. A principle
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James , In definition of homographs ,there it is mentioned that the words that are written the same but brake and break have different spellings as well the others are So, they are considered to be same in writing? 😕 I'm confused! Can make this clearer for me?
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I think the 3rd
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