The words homonym, homophone, and homograph are grammatical terms that are easy to confuse with one another because their meanings are all closely related, so let’s go through each one of them and see what the differences are:
Homophones
Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently.
Example:
My family loved their souvenirs.
They’re excited to travel to new places.
How many people live there?
Homographs
Homographs are words that are spelt the same but have different meanings and pronunciation.
Example:
He likes to read /riːd/ books about science.
She read /rɛd/ her report in front of the class.
Homonyms
Homonyms are also words that sound the same but which are also spelt the same. However, they have different meanings.
Example:
After reviewing all the facts, the student was right.
The house is at the end of the road, on the right.
Task 14
Replace the wrong word in each of the sentences with its homophone:
