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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 556 · 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 “night”? (a) knight (b) allowed (c) knew
  2. 2.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sell”? (a) meat (b) cell (c) steel
  3. 3.Which word sounds exactly like “new”? (a) waist (b) sun (c) knew
  4. 4.Listen: which word sounds the same as “peace”? (a) allowed (b) berry (c) piece
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “piece”? (a) tale (b) peace (c) right
  6. 6.Which word sounds exactly like “bare”? (a) by (b) bear (c) not
  7. 7.Listen: which word sounds the same as “there”? (a) right (b) their (c) grown
  8. 8.Which word sounds exactly like “missed”? (a) write (b) hole (c) mist
  9. 9.Listen: which word sounds the same as “berry”? (a) bury (b) meat (c) maid
  10. 10.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knight”? (a) their (b) sail (c) night
  11. 11.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sea”? (a) buy (b) blue (c) see
  12. 12.Which word sounds exactly like “see”? (a) ate (b) tow (c) sea
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “hear”? (a) son (b) here (c) made
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “dear”? (a) knew (b) son (c) deer
  15. 15.Listen: which word sounds the same as “see”? (a) sea (b) groan (c) one
  16. 16.Which word sounds exactly like “wait”? (a) new (b) weight (c) their
  17. 17.Which word sounds exactly like “by”? (a) waist (b) buy (c) passed
  18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “toe”? (a) steal (b) passed (c) tow
  19. 19.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flower”? (a) passed (b) here (c) flour
  20. 20.Which word sounds exactly like “road”? (a) rode (b) write (c) waist
  21. 21.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knot”? (a) heal (b) not (c) whole
  22. 22.Listen: which word sounds the same as “weight”? (a) hole (b) wait (c) hear
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “new”? (a) meat (b) knew (c) ate
  24. 24.Which word sounds exactly like “bury”? (a) here (b) plain (c) berry
  25. 25.Listen: which word sounds the same as “pair”? (a) son (b) pear (c) groan
  26. 26.Which word sounds exactly like “meat”? (a) meet (b) here (c) flower
  27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hear”? (a) mail (b) here (c) missed
  28. 28.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rose”? (a) rows (b) meet (c) pear
  29. 29.Listen: which word sounds the same as “grown”? (a) heel (b) weak (c) groan
  30. 30.Which word sounds exactly like “won”? (a) right (b) one (c) cell
  31. 31.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bear”? (a) not (b) passed (c) bare
  32. 32.Listen: which word sounds the same as “right”? (a) whole (b) write (c) rode
  33. 33.Listen: which word sounds the same as “allowed”? (a) steel (b) not (c) aloud
  34. 34.Listen: which word sounds the same as “here”? (a) sell (b) hear (c) new
  35. 35.Which word sounds exactly like “knight”? (a) night (b) week (c) hear
  36. 36.Listen: which word sounds the same as “passed”? (a) see (b) allowed (c) past
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “there”? (a) their (b) rode (c) flu
  38. 38.Which word sounds exactly like “here”? (a) not (b) sea (c) hear
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “plane”? (a) deer (b) plain (c) road
  40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “sell”? (a) cell (b) flower (c) one

Answer key

  1. knight
  2. cell
  3. knew
  4. piece
  5. peace
  6. bear
  7. their
  8. mist
  9. bury
  10. night
  11. see
  12. sea
  13. here
  14. deer
  15. sea
  16. weight
  17. buy
  18. tow
  19. flour
  20. rode
  21. not
  22. wait
  23. knew
  24. berry
  25. pear
  26. meet
  27. here
  28. rows
  29. groan
  30. one
  31. bare
  32. write
  33. aloud
  34. hear
  35. night
  36. past
  37. their
  38. hear
  39. plain
  40. cell

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