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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 10 · 40 questions
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How to say it (Same sound, different spelling): Say the word aloud — if two spellings sound the same, they are homophones. A silent letter often hides a homophone: knight = night, whole = hole, knew = new. Choose the spelling from the meaning.

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  1. 1.Which word sounds exactly like “grown”? (a) plain (b) steal (c) groan
  2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “meat”? (a) meet (b) plane (c) cell
  3. 3.Which word sounds exactly like “hear”? (a) here (b) grown (c) tale
  4. 4.Listen: which word sounds the same as “aloud”? (a) write (b) their (c) allowed
  5. 5.Which word sounds exactly like “bear”? (a) blew (b) bare (c) flu
  6. 6.Which word sounds exactly like “not”? (a) aloud (b) their (c) knot
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “knight”? (a) missed (b) blue (c) night
  8. 8.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sun”? (a) son (b) flu (c) pair
  9. 9.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flew”? (a) flu (b) pair (c) waste
  10. 10.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knight”? (a) pear (b) one (c) night
  11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “wait”? (a) road (b) weight (c) sail
  12. 12.Which word sounds exactly like “toe”? (a) berry (b) tow (c) aloud
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “weight”? (a) whole (b) wait (c) hear
  14. 14.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rode”? (a) won (b) know (c) road
  15. 15.Which word sounds exactly like “cell”? (a) waste (b) sell (c) bare
  16. 16.Listen: which word sounds the same as “peace”? (a) buy (b) piece (c) rose
  17. 17.Which word sounds exactly like “sale”? (a) blew (b) son (c) sail
  18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) flower (b) won (c) plain
  19. 19.Listen: which word sounds the same as “one”? (a) here (b) pear (c) won
  20. 20.Which word sounds exactly like “son”? (a) hear (b) sail (c) sun
  21. 21.Which word sounds exactly like “heal”? (a) not (b) ate (c) heel
  22. 22.Listen: which word sounds the same as “whole”? (a) tow (b) meat (c) hole
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rose”? (a) see (b) flour (c) rows
  24. 24.Which word sounds exactly like “right”? (a) one (b) brake (c) write
  25. 25.Which word sounds exactly like “brake”? (a) break (b) meet (c) son
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “heal”? (a) flew (b) heel (c) waist
  27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sail”? (a) sale (b) waist (c) one
  28. 28.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sale”? (a) sail (b) one (c) bear
  29. 29.Listen: which word sounds the same as “groan”? (a) grown (b) hear (c) bare
  30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flu”? (a) pear (b) heal (c) flew
  31. 31.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bury”? (a) sail (b) berry (c) rode
  32. 32.Which word sounds exactly like “sun”? (a) ate (b) son (c) tail
  33. 33.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knew”? (a) wait (b) rose (c) new
  34. 34.Listen: which word sounds the same as “won”? (a) one (b) week (c) hole
  35. 35.Which word sounds exactly like “no”? (a) know (b) knot (c) knew
  36. 36.Which word sounds exactly like “see”? (a) here (b) steal (c) sea
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “buy”? (a) toe (b) knot (c) by
  38. 38.Which word sounds exactly like “road”? (a) grown (b) rode (c) past
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “peace”? (a) brake (b) piece (c) steal
  40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “one”? (a) not (b) ate (c) won

Answer key

  1. groan
  2. meet
  3. here
  4. allowed
  5. bare
  6. knot
  7. night
  8. son
  9. flu
  10. night
  11. weight
  12. tow
  13. wait
  14. road
  15. sell
  16. piece
  17. sail
  18. flower
  19. won
  20. sun
  21. heel
  22. hole
  23. rows
  24. write
  25. break
  26. heel
  27. sale
  28. sail
  29. grown
  30. flew
  31. berry
  32. son
  33. new
  34. one
  35. know
  36. sea
  37. by
  38. rode
  39. piece
  40. won

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