Homophones
Fill in the blank: They took ________ dog to the vet.
What is 'their'
Fill in the blank: Instrumental music has a calming _________ for many people.
What is effect?
Look at that cute dog over ________.
What is 'there'
This commonly mistaken homophone is a verb and means to influence.
What is affect?
Fill in the song lyric for this 1969 John Denver hit: Cause I’m leavin’ on a jet ________. I don’t know when I’ll be back again.
What is a plane?
A possessive pronoun with the root word 'it'.
What is its?
Fill in the blank: The greater _________ sign looks like <.
What is than?
Fill in the blank: I love everything about teaching ______ writing exams.
What is except?
This commonly mistaken homophone is a noun having to do with the earth’s atmospheric conditions.
What is weather?
This commonly mistaken homophone introduces choice and rhymes with feather.
What is whether?
We have discussed these three commonly mistaken homophone contractions in class this week.
What are they're, you're, and it's?
This commonly mistaken homophone is a verb and means to receive.
What is accept?
Fill in the song lyric for this Rodgers & Hammerstein song which gets its name from our very own state: OOOOklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the ____________.
What is 'plain'?
I can’t believe ________ already the end of February.
What is it's?
Fill in the song lyric for this 1966 hit sung by the Monkees: And ________ I saw her face. Now I’m a believer. And not a trace of doubt in my mind.
What is then?
You is the root word for this possessive pronoun.
What is your?
This homophone set is an award made out of a shiny element. You must list them in order.
What is a metal medal?
1984 has many historical and literary ___________.
What are allusions?
Put the homophones in order so that the sentence makes sense. I had ______ read _______ books, _______.
In the book 1984, the Party’s annual productivity was merely a highly orchestrated __________ meant to deceive the people as a means of control.
What is illusion?
This mnemonic device can be used to remember the difference between capitol/capital.
Draw your answer on the board
Having to do with money, a school leader, or something first in order of importance.
What is principal?
Fill in the blank: When talking about the US legislature building, ___________ begins with a ____________ letter. When talking about the state legislature building, it is lowercase.
What are capitol and capital?
This commonly mistaken homophone is a noun having one essential meaning: a basic truth or law or one’s values.
What is principle?
This mnemonic device can be used to remember the difference between principle/principal.
Draw your answer on the board.