Unlocking the Secrets:

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Unlocking the Secrets

• Homophones and Homographs

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Homophones

• English words that sound alike but are spelled
  differently
• AND have different meanings too
• Examples are
• I, eye, aye
• dear, deer
• buy, by, bye
• their, theyre, there

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eye I aye
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More examples
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There are many, many more soWhich one should
you use?Look up each meaningOr you surely will
lose!

• Here are a few more
• seen, scene
• great, grate
• pail, pale
• bury, berry
• beat, beet
• peek, peak

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Now for the HOMOGRAPHS

• Remember They are English words that are
  spelled the same but mean different things.
• For example
• Look at the word light
• Please turn on the light.
• This has to do with illumination.
• (Dont know what illumination means? LOOK IT
  UP!)
• It was as light as a feather.
• This has to do with how heavy it is.

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Lets try a few more HOMOGRAPHS

• Which fan is an admirer of someone or something?
• Which fan keeps you cool?
• (Do you know?)

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JUST A SMALL LIST OF HOMOGRAPHS

• read bowl lean punch
• bow bass close
  wind
• second lead live
  does
• present tear wind
  wound