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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 164 · 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 “piece”? (a) flour (b) eight (c) peace
  2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “tale”? (a) tail (b) blew (c) tow
  3. 3.Which word sounds exactly like “eight”? (a) ate (b) night (c) missed
  4. 4.Listen: which word sounds the same as “brake”? (a) break (b) heal (c) passed
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “break”? (a) mist (b) aloud (c) brake
  6. 6.Listen: which word sounds the same as “deer”? (a) break (b) new (c) dear
  7. 7.Listen: which word sounds the same as “pair”? (a) sell (b) pear (c) tale
  8. 8.Which word sounds exactly like “plane”? (a) plain (b) toe (c) sail
  9. 9.Listen: which word sounds the same as “maid”? (a) knew (b) see (c) made
  10. 10.Which word sounds exactly like “past”? (a) flower (b) passed (c) knight
  11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “their”? (a) weak (b) there (c) allowed
  12. 12.Listen: which word sounds the same as “son”? (a) meat (b) road (c) sun
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “by”? (a) rose (b) peace (c) buy
  14. 14.Listen: which word sounds the same as “one”? (a) meat (b) won (c) knight
  15. 15.Which word sounds exactly like “heal”? (a) passed (b) heel (c) wait
  16. 16.Listen: which word sounds the same as “plane”? (a) bear (b) plain (c) toe
  17. 17.Which word sounds exactly like “blew”? (a) grown (b) blue (c) won
  18. 18.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sea”? (a) see (b) tale (c) heel
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “waist”? (a) waste (b) know (c) groan
  20. 20.Listen: which word sounds the same as “won”? (a) break (b) knight (c) one
  21. 21.Listen: which word sounds the same as “weak”? (a) eight (b) wait (c) week
  22. 22.Listen: which word sounds the same as “meet”? (a) week (b) meat (c) know
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “know”? (a) ate (b) no (c) mail
  24. 24.Which word sounds exactly like “no”? (a) brake (b) sea (c) know
  25. 25.Listen: which word sounds the same as “past”? (a) week (b) missed (c) passed
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knot”? (a) not (b) flu (c) bury
  27. 27.Which word sounds exactly like “passed”? (a) deer (b) blew (c) past
  28. 28.Which word sounds exactly like “flower”? (a) buy (b) knew (c) flour
  29. 29.Which word sounds exactly like “weight”? (a) male (b) wait (c) missed
  30. 30.Which word sounds exactly like “mist”? (a) plane (b) hole (c) missed
  31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “knot”? (a) not (b) flour (c) pair
  32. 32.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sale”? (a) steel (b) sail (c) rode
  33. 33.Listen: which word sounds the same as “their”? (a) there (b) grown (c) by
  34. 34.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hear”? (a) aloud (b) ate (c) here
  35. 35.Which word sounds exactly like “deer”? (a) allowed (b) weak (c) dear
  36. 36.Which word sounds exactly like “grown”? (a) blew (b) groan (c) aloud
  37. 37.Listen: which word sounds the same as “waste”? (a) buy (b) waist (c) steal
  38. 38.Which word sounds exactly like “heel”? (a) sun (b) peace (c) heal
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “there”? (a) deer (b) bear (c) their
  40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “blue”? (a) there (b) eight (c) blew

Answer key

  1. peace
  2. tail
  3. ate
  4. break
  5. brake
  6. dear
  7. pear
  8. plain
  9. made
  10. passed
  11. there
  12. sun
  13. buy
  14. won
  15. heel
  16. plain
  17. blue
  18. see
  19. waste
  20. one
  21. week
  22. meat
  23. no
  24. know
  25. passed
  26. not
  27. past
  28. flour
  29. wait
  30. missed
  31. not
  32. sail
  33. there
  34. here
  35. dear
  36. groan
  37. waist
  38. heal
  39. their
  40. blew

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