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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 764 · 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 “groan”? (a) grown (b) road (c) knot
  2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) tow (b) whole (c) flower
  3. 3.Which word sounds exactly like “son”? (a) knot (b) pear (c) sun
  4. 4.Which word sounds exactly like “write”? (a) wait (b) steel (c) right
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “ate”? (a) bear (b) steal (c) eight
  6. 6.Listen: which word sounds the same as “son”? (a) sun (b) night (c) berry
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “here”? (a) sell (b) hear (c) made
  8. 8.Which word sounds exactly like “pear”? (a) pair (b) weight (c) see
  9. 9.Which word sounds exactly like “pair”? (a) son (b) pear (c) hear
  10. 10.Listen: which word sounds the same as “meet”? (a) meat (b) bury (c) right
  11. 11.Listen: which word sounds the same as “tale”? (a) mist (b) by (c) tail
  12. 12.Listen: which word sounds the same as “peace”? (a) piece (b) write (c) flu
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “allowed”? (a) bury (b) aloud (c) buy
  14. 14.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flu”? (a) heel (b) peace (c) flew
  15. 15.Listen: which word sounds the same as “tow”? (a) toe (b) know (c) blew
  16. 16.Listen: which word sounds the same as “missed”? (a) sell (b) peace (c) mist
  17. 17.Listen: which word sounds the same as “road”? (a) rose (b) past (c) rode
  18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “weak”? (a) cell (b) week (c) waist
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “break”? (a) past (b) hear (c) brake
  20. 20.Which word sounds exactly like “tail”? (a) buy (b) rose (c) tale
  21. 21.Which word sounds exactly like “their”? (a) there (b) knight (c) won
  22. 22.Listen: which word sounds the same as “grown”? (a) flew (b) here (c) groan
  23. 23.Which word sounds exactly like “sea”? (a) there (b) no (c) see
  24. 24.Which word sounds exactly like “sun”? (a) son (b) not (c) hear
  25. 25.Which word sounds exactly like “hear”? (a) there (b) steal (c) here
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “no”? (a) passed (b) there (c) know
  27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “steal”? (a) grown (b) tail (c) steel
  28. 28.Which word sounds exactly like “blew”? (a) blue (b) aloud (c) dear
  29. 29.Which word sounds exactly like “flu”? (a) buy (b) blew (c) flew
  30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “made”? (a) maid (b) sail (c) write
  31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “passed”? (a) grown (b) past (c) night
  32. 32.Which word sounds exactly like “week”? (a) knight (b) weak (c) aloud
  33. 33.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flour”? (a) see (b) flower (c) night
  34. 34.Listen: which word sounds the same as “plain”? (a) plane (b) sale (c) flower
  35. 35.Which word sounds exactly like “whole”? (a) hole (b) night (c) bear
  36. 36.Listen: which word sounds the same as “buy”? (a) brake (b) by (c) road
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “know”? (a) right (b) no (c) steal
  38. 38.Listen: which word sounds the same as “aloud”? (a) allowed (b) missed (c) bury
  39. 39.Listen: which word sounds the same as “there”? (a) one (b) cell (c) their
  40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “plane”? (a) plain (b) blew (c) passed

Answer key

  1. grown
  2. flower
  3. sun
  4. right
  5. eight
  6. sun
  7. hear
  8. pair
  9. pear
  10. meat
  11. tail
  12. piece
  13. aloud
  14. flew
  15. toe
  16. mist
  17. rode
  18. week
  19. brake
  20. tale
  21. there
  22. groan
  23. see
  24. son
  25. here
  26. know
  27. steel
  28. blue
  29. flew
  30. maid
  31. past
  32. weak
  33. flower
  34. plane
  35. hole
  36. by
  37. no
  38. allowed
  39. their
  40. plain

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