Homophones

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Homophones are the words are similar in sound and different in meaning and spelling. let us collect them how much we know about them

My first homophone

sum & some

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what are these names did you kept nick names of your home phones.
Dear Isha
Homophones means it is related to grammar.The 2 words will be same in pronunciation or sounding but they are different in spelling and meaning.

For example

Sum and some.
sum means addition
some means little

sun and son
sun means it is in sky
son means boy who took birth for his parents

our and hour
our means its related to us
hour means it is time
Here is a homophone
were and wear
were-the past form of am,is,are
wear-to dress up some cloth.
disease - decease

disease - it is kind of ill

decease - dead
ok got the point.from my side
Seen- To watch anything
Scene- Appearance of something.
Rain and Reign.

Rain is a weather.

Reign means a Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule
ad and add

ad means an advertisement of a company or job etc.

add means addition of two or more numbers or objects etc.
Sarala,

Sorry to say that such thread already exist and you can re-open it instead of continuing this new one. I hope you dont mind. please have a look in English language writing category. :)
Friends I have one homophone
Hare - Big rabbit
Hair - dead cells which grows from skin.
I have one more homophone

at and yet

see and sea
Friends i have a homophone

Ant and aunt

I dont what to explain this because all you know this one.
sasikanth

ant and aunt are not homo phones
because they wont sound similar

a-nt and au-nt not similar
very nice i think there are so many homophones that exist in english language.
But we cant sound similar but the other countries will spell similar.They know only by spelling.
in - inside
inn - hotel

so similar in sound but meaning different
Sarala can you post some more homophones for us.I am eager to learn more from you.
thankyou sarala for starting this post...i have got a good understanding of homophones now...
Sarala have you know any sites of this homophones please provide us link.

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