On today's episode of Educhatwithbella, we will be looking at differentiating words.


I'm sure we have been learning the right pronunciation of those words from our blog this past week.


Now let's move to differentiating words.


I will always say that words are tricky and they are not always pronounced the way they are spelt ( judging from our previous post).


Today we will be looking at homophones and homonyms.


Homophones are words that have the same pronunciation but different spelling and meaning.


Homonyms are words that have same spelling,same pronunciation but different meaning .



Most times the word we feel are homophones are actually wrong , let's take a look at some words 



Homophones.       Words


1. Sit.            Seat(wrong).


2.hit.       Heat( wrong)


3.ship.    Sheep(wrong).


4. Bit.     Beat (wrong)


5. Cup.    Cap( right)


6. Son.    Sun(right)


7. Meet.   Meat( right)


8.slip.    Sleep(wrong).



Now most of the words we just found out are wrong actually don't have the same pronunciation and therefore can't be use as words and homophones.



Let's take a look at homonyms.



Homonyms.      Words


Bank.         Bank


Saw.        Saw


Tie.         Tie



These words have same spelling,same pronunciation but different meaning.




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  1. AnonymousApril 25, 2022 at 5:23 AM

    Thanks, actually didn't know about homophones and homonyms, thanks to this I know the differences.

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  2. AnonymousApril 25, 2022 at 5:27 AM

    Very educative , so sit and seat are not pronounced the same way, pls can we get a video or audio pronouncing these words so we know the right pronunciation. Thanks

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