What are homophones for grade 2?

What are homophones for grade 2?

Homophones are words that sounds alike but have different meanings and spellings. Students circle the correct homophone to complete the sentence.

What are homophones give 2 examples?

Sometimes, homophones are even spelled and sound exactly the same but still have different meanings: ‘rose’ (the flower) and ‘rose’ (past tense of rise); ‘lie’ (to tell an untruth) and ‘lie’ (to lie down); ‘bear’ (the animal) and ‘bear’ (to put up with) are more examples of homophones.

What are homophones give five examples?

What are some good homophones?

cell/sell: If you sell drugs, you will get arrested and end up in a prison cell. cent/scent: I won’t spend one cent on a bottle of perfume until I know that I love the scent. die/dye: If you accidentally drank a bottle of fabric dye, you might die. flour/flower: To bake a flower-shaped cake, you’ll need some flour.

What are homophone examples?

Homophones are words that have the same sound, in terms of how they are pronounced but have a different meaning and are (often) spelt differently. For example: To; two; too. For example, Sally might say; “I’m going to the shops.” Her brother, Richard might say; “I want to go too.”

What are the 20 examples of homophones?

Air -It.

  • Mail-male.
  • loan-lone.
  • Made- maid.
  • Arc -ark.
  • meat -It.
  • ate -eight.
  • bad-bade.
  • What are some uncommon examples of homophones?

    accept/except: Accept is a verb that means to take or receive.

  • affect/effect: Affect is a verb (in most cases) and indicates influence.
  • compliment/complement: Compliment means to say something nice about someone or something.
  • then/than: Then is a versatile word used as an adverb,noun or adjective to show the order of how things happened.
  • What are homophones and why you should care?

    Homophones are eerily similar to homonyms, although there is a key difference. A homophone is used when two words share the same sound and pronunciation, like a homonym; however, to be a homophone, they must be spelled differently. Homophone Examples: When he awoke days later, he felt as if he was in a daze.

    What is the difference between homophones and antonyms?

    bark (outer covering of a tree) and bark (noise a dog makes)

  • bat (flying mammal) and bat (used to hit a baseball)
  • can (steel cylinder) and can (is able)
  • ring (jewelry worn on the finger) and ring (noise a phone makes)
  • tire (wheel) and tire (to become exhausted)