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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 96 · 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 “tow”? (a) mail (b) toe (c) pear
  2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “there”? (a) sail (b) their (c) plain
  3. 3.Which word sounds exactly like “piece”? (a) peace (b) knight (c) brake
  4. 4.Which word sounds exactly like “bare”? (a) bear (b) blue (c) sun
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “night”? (a) knight (b) sea (c) weak
  6. 6.Which word sounds exactly like “wait”? (a) weight (b) heal (c) eight
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “flew”? (a) right (b) ate (c) flu
  8. 8.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) ate (b) flower (c) sun
  9. 9.Which word sounds exactly like “sell”? (a) cell (b) no (c) their
  10. 10.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hear”? (a) right (b) waste (c) here
  11. 11.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knot”? (a) meat (b) not (c) past
  12. 12.Which word sounds exactly like “flower”? (a) flour (b) aloud (c) weak
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “buy”? (a) tale (b) there (c) by
  14. 14.Listen: which word sounds the same as “peace”? (a) heel (b) piece (c) won
  15. 15.Which word sounds exactly like “knight”? (a) night (b) male (c) tail
  16. 16.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flower”? (a) flour (b) ate (c) son
  17. 17.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blew”? (a) break (b) right (c) blue
  18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “male”? (a) mail (b) flour (c) write
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “road”? (a) rode (b) meat (c) steel
  20. 20.Which word sounds exactly like “heel”? (a) see (b) flu (c) heal
  21. 21.Listen: which word sounds the same as “steal”? (a) missed (b) steel (c) ate
  22. 22.Which word sounds exactly like “mist”? (a) missed (b) waste (c) rose
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “made”? (a) sea (b) maid (c) weak
  24. 24.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flu”? (a) flew (b) right (c) missed
  25. 25.Which word sounds exactly like “pair”? (a) son (b) piece (c) pear
  26. 26.Which word sounds exactly like “past”? (a) write (b) there (c) passed
  27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “waist”? (a) meet (b) past (c) waste
  28. 28.Listen: which word sounds the same as “meat”? (a) meet (b) write (c) know
  29. 29.Which word sounds exactly like “flu”? (a) flew (b) pair (c) passed
  30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “buy”? (a) by (b) brake (c) waste
  31. 31.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flew”? (a) pair (b) rose (c) flu
  32. 32.Listen: which word sounds the same as “there”? (a) mist (b) their (c) write
  33. 33.Which word sounds exactly like “maid”? (a) right (b) steel (c) made
  34. 34.Listen: which word sounds the same as “ate”? (a) here (b) eight (c) night
  35. 35.Which word sounds exactly like “sea”? (a) there (b) bare (c) see
  36. 36.Which word sounds exactly like “rode”? (a) road (b) berry (c) hear
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “groan”? (a) grown (b) plain (c) sell
  38. 38.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rows”? (a) wait (b) past (c) rose
  39. 39.Listen: which word sounds the same as “weak”? (a) week (b) aloud (c) plane
  40. 40.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sun”? (a) son (b) ate (c) blue

Answer key

  1. toe
  2. their
  3. peace
  4. bear
  5. knight
  6. weight
  7. flu
  8. flower
  9. cell
  10. here
  11. not
  12. flour
  13. by
  14. piece
  15. night
  16. flour
  17. blue
  18. mail
  19. rode
  20. heal
  21. steel
  22. missed
  23. maid
  24. flew
  25. pear
  26. passed
  27. waste
  28. meet
  29. flew
  30. by
  31. flu
  32. their
  33. made
  34. eight
  35. see
  36. road
  37. grown
  38. rose
  39. week
  40. son

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