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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 313 · 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 “allowed”? (a) deer (b) aloud (c) sell
  2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “sun”? (a) heel (b) brake (c) son
  3. 3.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rose”? (a) ate (b) rows (c) plane
  4. 4.Which word sounds exactly like “bury”? (a) berry (b) no (c) waist
  5. 5.Which word sounds exactly like “rows”? (a) rose (b) groan (c) flour
  6. 6.Which word sounds exactly like “maid”? (a) past (b) not (c) made
  7. 7.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knew”? (a) maid (b) new (c) steel
  8. 8.Listen: which word sounds the same as “see”? (a) sea (b) steel (c) waste
  9. 9.Which word sounds exactly like “weight”? (a) bury (b) week (c) wait
  10. 10.Listen: which word sounds the same as “missed”? (a) night (b) mist (c) flour
  11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “dear”? (a) deer (b) made (c) meat
  12. 12.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) groan (b) flower (c) plane
  13. 13.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blue”? (a) passed (b) weight (c) blew
  14. 14.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sell”? (a) cell (b) plain (c) blew
  15. 15.Which word sounds exactly like “mist”? (a) not (b) groan (c) missed
  16. 16.Listen: which word sounds the same as “know”? (a) waist (b) heel (c) no
  17. 17.Which word sounds exactly like “won”? (a) pair (b) one (c) toe
  18. 18.Listen: which word sounds the same as “their”? (a) rose (b) there (c) pear
  19. 19.Listen: which word sounds the same as “right”? (a) hear (b) sell (c) write
  20. 20.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hear”? (a) here (b) ate (c) mist
  21. 21.Which word sounds exactly like “son”? (a) heel (b) sun (c) by
  22. 22.Listen: which word sounds the same as “not”? (a) knot (b) bare (c) waste
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sail”? (a) see (b) sale (c) bear
  24. 24.Listen: which word sounds the same as “dear”? (a) deer (b) bury (c) one
  25. 25.Listen: which word sounds the same as “past”? (a) rows (b) buy (c) passed
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “peace”? (a) piece (b) flour (c) by
  27. 27.Which word sounds exactly like “pair”? (a) pear (b) rose (c) eight
  28. 28.Which word sounds exactly like “flew”? (a) blue (b) flu (c) tow
  29. 29.Which word sounds exactly like “past”? (a) dear (b) made (c) passed
  30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “passed”? (a) past (b) made (c) groan
  31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “blue”? (a) rows (b) blew (c) groan
  32. 32.Listen: which word sounds the same as “whole”? (a) won (b) hole (c) here
  33. 33.Which word sounds exactly like “plane”? (a) bare (b) break (c) plain
  34. 34.Listen: which word sounds the same as “tale”? (a) steel (b) tail (c) road
  35. 35.Which word sounds exactly like “groan”? (a) grown (b) sun (c) see
  36. 36.Which word sounds exactly like “write”? (a) mist (b) right (c) see
  37. 37.Listen: which word sounds the same as “weight”? (a) bury (b) wait (c) passed
  38. 38.Which word sounds exactly like “one”? (a) week (b) won (c) new
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “wait”? (a) made (b) allowed (c) weight
  40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “their”? (a) flew (b) there (c) ate

Answer key

  1. aloud
  2. son
  3. rows
  4. berry
  5. rose
  6. made
  7. new
  8. sea
  9. wait
  10. mist
  11. deer
  12. flower
  13. blew
  14. cell
  15. missed
  16. no
  17. one
  18. there
  19. write
  20. here
  21. sun
  22. knot
  23. sale
  24. deer
  25. passed
  26. piece
  27. pear
  28. flu
  29. passed
  30. past
  31. blew
  32. hole
  33. plain
  34. tail
  35. grown
  36. right
  37. wait
  38. won
  39. weight
  40. there

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