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Chira Eugenia, Filologie, 302B

The document provides exercises to work with homophones, homographs, and homonyms in the English language. It contains examples of words that are homophonic or homographic and asks the student to identify them and provide their own examples using the words in different contexts. It also asks the student to spell words provided in phonetic script and identify their homophonic pairs. The exercises are meant to improve the student's ability to distinguish between similar sounding or identical words with different meanings in English.

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Chira Eugenia, Filologie, 302B

The document provides exercises to work with homophones, homographs, and homonyms in the English language. It contains examples of words that are homophonic or homographic and asks the student to identify them and provide their own examples using the words in different contexts. It also asks the student to spell words provided in phonetic script and identify their homophonic pairs. The exercises are meant to improve the student's ability to distinguish between similar sounding or identical words with different meanings in English.

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Chira Eugenia ,Filologie ,302B

Exercise 1

Find homophones in the sentences. Use them in different


context by building new sentences.

1. a) Some people never forget insults and wait for the hour
of revenge. b) Bill wants to spend a large sum of money on
modernizing the farm. ( some-sum)
- I work some days but not others.
- They could not afford such a sum.
2. a) You can buy jeans in every colour under the sun. b) In
those days, the property went to the oldest son.(sun-son)
- The next day the sun came back, and it didn't rain again
the entire trip.
- The son of the house.
3. a) To be able to live fully in the here and now, one must
first learn how to honour the past. b) There’s a nasty
infection going round, so I hear.(here-hear)
- You also know summer is here when the food markets
finally open after a winter of hibernation.
- You hear people say that he's clever.
4. a) The branch was too weak to support his weight. b) The
Reids are coming for dinner a week from Sunday.(weak-
week)
- Her legs were weak from lack of exercise.
- She has an art class twice a week.

Exercise 2

Find homographs in the sentences. Use them in different


context by building new sentences.

1. a) Many of the party’s traditional voters can suddenly


desert it at the election. b) The plane crash-landed in the
desert. No survivors were found.
2. a) He had just had a row with his wife? What was the row
about? b) The children were asked to stand in a row and to
dance samba.
3. a) “Please, don’t talk like that”, Ellen implored him, her
eyes filling with tears. b) She carefully tears the paper.
4. a) This is done with a formal bow to the king or queen. b) A
bow is used for shooting arrows, made of long thin piece of
wood held in a curve by a tight string.

Exercise 3.

In the following sentences, find the words which can have homo-
graphs in the English vocabulary. Provide these homographs.

1. Without the right date stamped on it, your ticket will be


invalid.
2. Clergymen bow their heads in prayer.
3. The statue was covered with minute particles of gold-dust.
4. Tom sat on a chair close to the window.

Exercise 4.

The following words can have homonyms. Prove it by


building collocations with these homonyms.
Bark
-I can hear the dog bark.
-I cut into the tree bark.
Bat
-This is a black bat.
-The player bat hte ball.
Bill
-The bill listed the movies being shown .
-The boy’s name was Bill.
Blow
- Ion blows to cool the bag.
- To blow for the last time
Can
-I can play soccer .
-I bought soda can.
Date
- I have a date with her next week.
- Sign and date the document
Fast
-The old lady couldn’t walk fast.
-It is a religious fast.
Mean
- I mean it as a compliment.
- You mean thing!
Mood
- He was obviously in a mood.
-Mood music.

Exercise 5

Give the homophones to the following words and make


colloca-tions with each of the homonyms in the homonymic
pairs.
1.Bawl-ball -seems fair
-a bowl of a cherries -full fair
- a great ball 8.flour-flower
2.Bean-been -blend flour
-cacao bean -learning flower
3.Blue-blow 9.grate-great
-the blue box -her soles grated
-a crashing blow -great fun
4.Bred-bread 10.hare-hair
-baked bread -a March hare
-cross-bred - auburn hair
5.Coarse-course 11.heir –air
-coarse sand - the rightful heir
-a crash course -the night air
6.Dye-die 12.herd-heard
-blue dye - to graze in a herd
- o die a natural sudden –to heard something
7. fair-fare 13.higher-hire
- quality higher -our teeth
- the hire of a car 15.knew-new
14.hour -our -knew by he
-per hour -entirely new

Exercise 6.

Spell the word given in the phonetic script and provide


its homo-
nymic pair.

1. That meeting achieved absolutely nothing - it was a


com-plete /weɪst/ of time. (waste – waist)
2. You’re not /əlaʊd/ to talk during the exam.(aloud-
allowed)
3. If your /saɪt/ is poor, you should not drive a car.
(sight-site)
4. The meeting will have to /weɪt/ until tomorrow,
because I’m too busy now. (wait-weight)
5. You got three answers /raɪt/ and two wrong.
(right-wright)
6. He gathered some /wʊd/ to build a fire (wood
-would )
8. Let us /preɪ/ for the victims of this terrible disaster.
(pray-prey)
Exercise 7

Choose the correct homophone from given in brackets.

1. My (sole, soul) is dark – Oh! Quickly string


The harp, (eye, I) yet can brook (too, to, two) (here,
hear); And let thy gentle fingers fling
Its melting murmurs (o’er, oar, or) mine ear.
If in this (heart, hart) a hope (bee, be) (deer, dear),
That sound shall charm it forth again;
Systenatic .Character .of .the .Vocabulary: .Synonyms, .Antonyms, .Homonums

If in these eyes (their, there) lurk a (tier, tear),


‘Twill (flow, floe), and cease to burn my brain (G.G.B.).

2. I bring fresh showers (four, fore, for) the thirsting (flowers, flours),
From the (seas, seize) and the streams;
I (bare, bear) light shade for leaves when (laid, lade) In their noonday dreams (P.B.S.).

3. Oh, why don’t you (pray, prey)


To the Good Lord for (bread, bred)? How can I (pray, prey)
To a God that is dead!

4. In a (weak, week) another order followed (no, know) (won, one) was (aloud, allowed) to walk
down the (main, mane) (isle, aisle) coming to or from work (F.S.).

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