Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Two, Lesson Four: Homophones


  1. please
  2. place
  3. pleasant
  4. plural
  5. purple
  6. ripple
  7. evaporate
  8. steam
  9. ocean
  10. stream
  1. sea
  2. lake
  3. river
  4. freeze
  5. north
  6. south
  7. east
  8. west
  9. central
  10. region
Homophones

There are lots of homophones in the English language. Remember that homophones are words which are spelled differently, but which sound the same. Here are some more examples:


	blew	blue
	wear	where
	which	witch
	sum	some
	fir	fur
	horse	hoarse
	sore	soar
	nun	none
	won	one
	ate	eight
	write	right
	peek	peak
	ore	oar
	week	weak
	sent	cent
	inn	in
	meet	meat
	beet	beat
	steel	steal
	wait	weight
	ring	wring


Here are some sentences which include some homophone pairs.

  So far we have won one game.

  She ate all eight hot dogs.

  He blew up a blue balloon.


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