HOMOPHONES
Homophones are words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings and are usually spelt differently as well. In other words, homophones are words with similar phonetic sounds but different spellings and meanings. Here is a list of the most common homophones.
          Word(s)	   Homophone(s)
1.	Air 	Heir 
2.	Ante 	Anti (British)
3.	Buy 	By 
4.	Cent 	Scent 
5.	Cause 	Course 
6.	Dam 	Damn 
7.	Fair 	Fare 
8.	Die 	Dye 
9.	Heal 	Eel 
10.	Flour 	Flower
11.	Hour 	Our 
12.	In 	Inn 
13.	Knot 	Not 
14.	Made 	Maid 
15.	One 	Won 
16.	Peace 	Piece 
17.	Principal 	Principle 
18.	Real 	Reel 
19.	Root 	Route
20.	See 	Sea 
21.	Sew 	So, sow
22.	Shore 	Sure
23.	Some 	Sum
24.	Stair 	Stare 
25.	Tail 	Tale 
26.	Waist 	Waste 
27.	Way 	Weigh
28.	Wear 	Where
29.	Aisle 	Isle
30.	Bear 	Bare
31.	Cell 	Sell
32.	Complement 	Compliment
33.	Dear 	Deer
34.	Eye 	I
35.	Hair 	Hare
36.	Here 	Hear
37.	Hole 	Whole
38.	Knight 	Night
39.	Know 	No
40.	Mail 	Male
41.	Plain 	Plane
42.	Right 	Write
43.	Sail 	Sale
44.	Seam 	Seem
45.	Sole 	Soul
46.	Stationary 	Stationery
47.	Sight 	Site
48.	 Son 	Sun
49.	Their 	There
50.	Toe 	Tow
51.	Wait 	Weight
52.	Week 	Weak
53.	Pail 	Pale
54.	Ad 	Add
55.	Blew 	Blue
56.	Hard 	No
57.	Ate 	Had
58.	Alter	Altar 
59.	Ascent 	Assent
60.	Berth 	Birth
61.	Bail 	Bale
62.	Beech 	Beach 
63.	Bolder 	Boulder
64.	Bred 	Bread
65.	Ceiling 	Sealing
66.	Check 	Cheque
67.	Council 	Cancel 
68.	Canvas 	Canvass
69.	Grate 	Great
70.	Hew 	Hue
71.	Lessen 	Lesson
72.	Knew	New

EXERCISE 3
1.	The wood was carved with an (all, awl)
2.	Sacrifices were offered on the (alter, altar)
3.	Edmond Hillary made his (assent, ascent) on Mount Everest first
4.	I reserved four (births, berths) for my family.
5.	She (abhors, harbors) snakes but adores alligators 
6.	The angry man (balled, bawled) at me
7.	There was a (bolder, boulder) blocking the path
8.	The cold war was between the Western and Eastern (blocks, blocs)
9.	He went (bear, beer, bare) footed 
10.	The (ceiling, sealing) of the room must be high
11.	The director made a (queue, cue) to start
12.	It is a (canvass, canvas) shoe
13.	He is weak because of his (decease, disease)
14.	Smoke is let out through (flew, flue)
15.	The landlord asked the gardener to (hue, hew) the branches
16.	The garments are (lose, loose)
17.	(Wring, Ring) the clothes after wash
18.	He is the (air, heir) to the throne.
19.	A set of leaves stitched together is (choir, quire)
20.	We need some (vales, vials) in the laboratory.
21.	The field has been (moan, mown)
22.	He is a (bow, beau), ladies are fond of him
23.	(Gorilla, Guerrilla) warfare is going on in Cambodia
24.	The militants (reeked, wreaked) havoc in Borno state
25.	The shop (wreaks, reeks) of spoilt oranges
26.	The play was a (review, revue) of Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. The cast was flawless.
27.	I hate traders who (hoard, horde).
28.	The mason (napped, knapped) the flints masterfully.
29.	It is another (phase, faze) in the development of commerce and industry in Nigeria.
30.	That is the (levee, levy) of the river.
Find out the meanings of these pairs
1.	Stile- style
2.	Tear- tier
3.	Kneed- knead
4.	Peal- peel 
5.	Team- teem
6.	Thyme- time
7.	Tic- tick 
8.	Toad-towed 
9.	Vain- vein
10.	Vice- vise
11.	Wade- weighed
12.	Nay- neigh
13.	Ode- owed
14.	Pain-pane
15.	Palette- pallet
16.	Whine- wine
17.	Groan- grown
18.	Pray- prey
19.	Rack- wrack
20.	Retch- wretch
21.	Role- roll
22.	Rose- rose
23.	Rye- wry
24.	Scull- skull
25.	Shoe- shoo
26.	Slay- sleigh
27.	Straight- strait
28.	Taught- taut
29.	Tear- tier
30.	Wail- whale 
31.	Wave- waive 
32.	We- wee
33.	Which- witch