Learn how your comment data is processed. Homophones, homonyms, and homographs. MelodyJ on September 12, at am. Melissa Donovan on September 13, at pm. I believe the curricula differ from district to district, which is certainly a shame. Kelvin Kao on September 13, at am. Krithika Rangarajan on December 15, at am. Thank you so much, Melissa! Kitto Reply. Melissa Donovan on December 28, at am. Vivienne on July 31, at am. Melissa Donovan on July 31, at pm.
In some places, people pronounce wash with an r: warsh. Patty on July 31, at am. Rosi Hollinbeck on July 31, at pm. Melissa Donovan on August 8, at pm. Kinley Wangchuk on October 6, at pm.
Melissa Donovan on October 10, at pm. Hi Kinley. Thanks for asking for clarification. Hope that helps! Submit a Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. First Name:. Email Address:. Write on, shine on! They should sound identical. As an exercise, you could try to put the other words in a sentence.
Take this example: You hear a recording about a lady who is enquiring about a job she saw in an online ad. As you listen you question asks you to write down where the lady saw found the job. For your IELTS writing test, it is less important how a word is pronounced, but spelling of a word is important. If your IELTS Writing test asks you to argue the benefits of vegetarian food, and you write meet which means getting together with someone instead of meat the animal product as food , you would lose marks for your lexical resource.
The pronunciation is often just a shift in the accented syllable. Even though they are spelled the same, the sound different. As an exercise, you could try to put the other from the list above words in a sentence. When you are preparing for your IELTS Speaking test, it is important to understand how a word is pronounced because this is part of the marking criteria. You will do a mock Speaking test and receive feedback on your performance.
Free practice material. The ending —graph means drawn or written, so a homograph has the same spelling. The —phone ending means sound or voice, so a homophone has the same pronunciation. But here's where it gets tricky. Depending on whom you talk to, homonym means either:. A word that is spelled like another but has a different sound and meaning homograph ; a word that sounds like another but has a different spelling and meaning homophone.
A word that is spelled and pronounced like another but has a different meaning homograph and homophone. So does a homonym have to be both a homograph and a homophone, or can it be just one or the other?
As with most things in life, it depends on whom you ask. In the strictest sense, a homonym must be both a homograph and a homophone. So say many dictionaries.
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