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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 272 · 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.Listen: which word sounds the same as “their”? (a) plain (b) knew (c) there
  2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “steel”? (a) tale (b) steal (c) there
  3. 3.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hear”? (a) here (b) allowed (c) break
  4. 4.Which word sounds exactly like “pear”? (a) break (b) pair (c) bare
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “aloud”? (a) hear (b) allowed (c) plane
  6. 6.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sale”? (a) flower (b) sail (c) won
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “eight”? (a) ate (b) rode (c) night
  8. 8.Which word sounds exactly like “wait”? (a) weight (b) heel (c) flour
  9. 9.Which word sounds exactly like “no”? (a) hear (b) know (c) flower
  10. 10.Listen: which word sounds the same as “here”? (a) allowed (b) hear (c) berry
  11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “by”? (a) buy (b) not (c) male
  12. 12.Which word sounds exactly like “meet”? (a) plain (b) meat (c) rows
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “aloud”? (a) bare (b) allowed (c) flu
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “sea”? (a) know (b) see (c) waist
  15. 15.Which word sounds exactly like “not”? (a) buy (b) rows (c) knot
  16. 16.Which word sounds exactly like “knot”? (a) toe (b) not (c) their
  17. 17.Which word sounds exactly like “male”? (a) by (b) plane (c) mail
  18. 18.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sea”? (a) aloud (b) see (c) plain
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “bear”? (a) sale (b) bare (c) there
  20. 20.Which word sounds exactly like “see”? (a) sea (b) write (c) plane
  21. 21.Listen: which word sounds the same as “son”? (a) wait (b) sun (c) blew
  22. 22.Listen: which word sounds the same as “cell”? (a) rode (b) sell (c) hole
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “weak”? (a) week (b) past (c) knot
  24. 24.Listen: which word sounds the same as “passed”? (a) past (b) sun (c) night
  25. 25.Which word sounds exactly like “groan”? (a) grown (b) knew (c) weak
  26. 26.Which word sounds exactly like “missed”? (a) flu (b) mist (c) piece
  27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “no”? (a) sell (b) know (c) bear
  28. 28.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blue”? (a) whole (b) blew (c) see
  29. 29.Which word sounds exactly like “plane”? (a) buy (b) plain (c) dear
  30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “week”? (a) sail (b) right (c) weak
  31. 31.Listen: which word sounds the same as “plain”? (a) blew (b) made (c) plane
  32. 32.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blew”? (a) flu (b) see (c) blue
  33. 33.Which word sounds exactly like “rose”? (a) rows (b) plane (c) berry
  34. 34.Which word sounds exactly like “know”? (a) write (b) no (c) buy
  35. 35.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sail”? (a) steel (b) sale (c) past
  36. 36.Listen: which word sounds the same as “tail”? (a) son (b) groan (c) tale
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “dear”? (a) deer (b) piece (c) sell
  38. 38.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rode”? (a) deer (b) road (c) bury
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “son”? (a) know (b) sun (c) meet
  40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “berry”? (a) write (b) bare (c) bury

Answer key

  1. there
  2. steal
  3. here
  4. pair
  5. allowed
  6. sail
  7. ate
  8. weight
  9. know
  10. hear
  11. buy
  12. meat
  13. allowed
  14. see
  15. knot
  16. not
  17. mail
  18. see
  19. bare
  20. sea
  21. sun
  22. sell
  23. week
  24. past
  25. grown
  26. mist
  27. know
  28. blew
  29. plain
  30. weak
  31. plane
  32. blue
  33. rows
  34. no
  35. sale
  36. tale
  37. deer
  38. road
  39. sun
  40. bury

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