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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 377 · 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 “rose”? (a) rows (b) night (c) flower
  2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “blue”? (a) meet (b) know (c) blew
  3. 3.Listen: which word sounds the same as “eight”? (a) bury (b) rows (c) ate
  4. 4.Listen: which word sounds the same as “night”? (a) made (b) meat (c) knight
  5. 5.Which word sounds exactly like “meet”? (a) meat (b) steel (c) weak
  6. 6.Listen: which word sounds the same as “groan”? (a) bury (b) sale (c) grown
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “pear”? (a) made (b) pair (c) sale
  8. 8.Which word sounds exactly like “knight”? (a) night (b) pear (c) peace
  9. 9.Which word sounds exactly like “made”? (a) maid (b) knight (c) toe
  10. 10.Which word sounds exactly like “there”? (a) one (b) weight (c) their
  11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “their”? (a) there (b) buy (c) tail
  12. 12.Listen: which word sounds the same as “week”? (a) weak (b) made (c) grown
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) meat (b) grown (c) flower
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “grown”? (a) made (b) groan (c) past
  15. 15.Listen: which word sounds the same as “tow”? (a) write (b) toe (c) break
  16. 16.Listen: which word sounds the same as “not”? (a) tow (b) knot (c) write
  17. 17.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bear”? (a) pair (b) piece (c) bare
  18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “son”? (a) meet (b) toe (c) sun
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “waist”? (a) rows (b) waste (c) blew
  20. 20.Which word sounds exactly like “flew”? (a) won (b) know (c) flu
  21. 21.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sell”? (a) flu (b) cell (c) blew
  22. 22.Listen: which word sounds the same as “there”? (a) their (b) sail (c) pair
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hear”? (a) here (b) break (c) rose
  24. 24.Which word sounds exactly like “meat”? (a) missed (b) here (c) meet
  25. 25.Which word sounds exactly like “won”? (a) steal (b) blew (c) one
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bare”? (a) eight (b) bear (c) sun
  27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rode”? (a) heel (b) road (c) sell
  28. 28.Which word sounds exactly like “heel”? (a) one (b) heal (c) knight
  29. 29.Listen: which word sounds the same as “whole”? (a) knight (b) new (c) hole
  30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “pear”? (a) son (b) week (c) pair
  31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “write”? (a) knew (b) right (c) pear
  32. 32.Which word sounds exactly like “rows”? (a) rose (b) male (c) right
  33. 33.Which word sounds exactly like “ate”? (a) sun (b) hole (c) eight
  34. 34.Which word sounds exactly like “know”? (a) no (b) rose (c) missed
  35. 35.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flower”? (a) mail (b) flour (c) deer
  36. 36.Which word sounds exactly like “cell”? (a) sell (b) knot (c) blue
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “sun”? (a) son (b) tale (c) night
  38. 38.Which word sounds exactly like “week”? (a) no (b) by (c) weak
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “waste”? (a) waist (b) sun (c) knew
  40. 40.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sale”? (a) missed (b) sail (c) peace

Answer key

  1. rows
  2. blew
  3. ate
  4. knight
  5. meat
  6. grown
  7. pair
  8. night
  9. maid
  10. their
  11. there
  12. weak
  13. flower
  14. groan
  15. toe
  16. knot
  17. bare
  18. sun
  19. waste
  20. flu
  21. cell
  22. their
  23. here
  24. meet
  25. one
  26. bear
  27. road
  28. heal
  29. hole
  30. pair
  31. right
  32. rose
  33. eight
  34. no
  35. flour
  36. sell
  37. son
  38. weak
  39. waist
  40. sail

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