It is in the intermediate stage of primary school that there tend to be greater conflicts, especially in the language subject, when writing homophones. But what are you? What are homophone words? We know as homophone words those that they are written differently but they sound the same and they have a different meaning between them. That is, they are those words that have the same pronunciation, but their spelling is different and their meaning is also different.
So how are they recognized? How can we know if we should write them one way or another? How in a conversation do we know what word our interlocutor is actually referring to? Very easy! It will always depend on the context in which that homophone word is being used. With the followings examples you will better understand what we mean by context.
Examples of homophone words
These are some of the many examples that you can find as homophone words:
- Bleat: It is said of the sound of animals such as sheep. Example: The bleating is heard from my house.
- Valid: acceptance of something. Example: The exam is given as valid.
- Berry: It is a strawberry or fruit of a tree. Example: Do not pick berries from the ground.
- Fence: it is a fence or fence. Example: These fences are too high to be able to jump over them.
- Oh: go to a place. Example: Go to the doctor before you feel worse.
- Herb: it is a plant. Example: Grass grows anywhere.
- Boil: act of cooking, boiling or heating. Example: Bring it to a boil before continuing to cook.
- Grate: Crumble something. Example: I am scratching a lemon.
- Scratch: Make lines on a surface. Example: My little brother is scratching the book.
- I knew: A person with wisdom. Example: My grandmother is a very wise person.
Sap: Vegetable juice from plants and trees. Example: The sap of that tree is whitish.
We can distinguish the meaning of these words clearly by its context where they are located, whether in a written text, or in a conversation with an interlocutor.