Tag Archives: homophones

Here are five homophone worksheets on the nouns symbol and cymbal.

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Here are five homophone worksheets on the nouns troop and troupe.

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OK: here are five worksheets on the homophones vain and vein, which are, respectively, a noun and an adjective. Remember that the noun for vain, in the sense of “having or showing undue pride in one’s appearance or achievements” is vanity. And when one uses (as the exercises show) vain as an adjective to mean “marked by futility or ineffectualness” the preposition in generally precedes the adjective (i.e. in vain).

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Depending on what region of the country whence you hail (if you’ll forgive me that locution), these might not necessarily be homophones, but these five homophone worksheets on the homophones elicit and illicit might also serve as vocabulary-building worksheets. Nota bene that elicit as a verb has only transitive use–so don’t forget your direct object!

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Here are five worksheets on the homophones desert (a noun and a verb, in the latter case used both intransitively and transitively) and dessert, which is only a noun. These are two very commonly confused words even though, when carefully and properly pronounced, they aren’t really homophones.

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Here are five worksheets on the homophones wait, which as a verb is used both intransitively and transitively, but is also used as a noun (“The tourists had a long wait for the A train to Harlem”), and weight, which is used as a noun.

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Here are five worksheets on the homophones soar and sore.

Soar is an intransitive verb, though it also has use as a noun, meaning “the range, distance, or height attained in soaring” and “the act of soaring: upward flight.” The noun isn’t tagged as archaic in Merriam-Webster’s; I don’t know about you, but I’ve never used soar as a noun.

Sore, of course, is an adjective, and it’s how you feel after an injury or other trauma, or after intense exercise.

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