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Give the meaning for the following holograph, homophone a)right and write b)pair and pear |
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Answer» ong>Answer: Homophones First let’s tackle homophones. The root –phone means “sound,” as it does in telephone and phonics. So homophones are words that sound the same, such as doe a deer, a female deer, and dough that you bake into bread. Homographs Next, let’s do homographs. The root -graph means “WRITE,” just as it does in autograph and telegraph. So homographs are words that are written the same—that is, words that have the same spelling. For example, there’s the verb tears, as in “SQUIGGLY tears the SPEEDING ticket in two,” and the noun tears, meaning the SALTY drops of water that ran down your CHEEK when you watched the movie Inside Out. They’re homographs because they’re both spelled T-E-A-R-S. |
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