2.4.- Homophones.

Do you know what homophones are?

Homophones are words which have the same pronunciation, although they are written in a different way.

It is the context which will help US to understand and know which word we have just heard.
Some examples are:

Sea – see ; eye – I ; buy - bye ; hear – here.

We are going to provide you with a list of the main English homophones.

• Allowed – aloud.
• Ate – eight.
• Band – banned.
• Bear – bare.
• Be – bee.
• Berry – bury.
• Blue – blew.
• Buy – by – bye.
• Caught – court.
• Climb – clime.
• Die – dye.
• Hear – here.
• High – hi.
• It’s – its.
• Knew – new.
• Knows – nose.
• Made – maid.
• Meat – meet.
• Missed – mist.
• None – nun.
• One –won.
• Pair – pear.
• Rain – reign.
• Read – red.
• Right – write.
• Scene – seen.
• Sea – see.
• Sew – so.
• Site – sight.
• Some – sum.
• Son – sun.
• Sort – sought.
• Storey – story.
• Sweet – suite.
• Tale – tail.
• There – their
• Tide – tied.
• Two – too.
• Waist – waste.
• Wait – weight.
• War – wore.
• Wear – where.
• Weak – week.
• Weather – whether.
• Which – witch.
• Who’s – whose.
• Wood – would.
• Your – you’re.