It provides examples of homophones and homonyms in sentences and encourages the reader to make their own sentences using homophones and homonyms.

1. Horrible
Homophones
&
Hideous
Homonyms

2. Homo-what?
Homophone Homonym
• Sounds the same as another • Sound the same as another
word word
• Can be spelled the same • Are spelt the same
(but not always!)
• E.g. carrot (vegetable) and • E.g. left (past of leave) and
carat (quality of a diamond) left (opposite of right)

3. Examples
Are the circled words homophones or
homonyms?
I ate eight hot dogs.
His father is farther away.
He shot the bow from the bow.

4. Examples
Are the circled words homophones or
homonyms?
Homophone
I ate eight hot dogs.
Homophone
His father is farther away.
Homonym
He shot the bow from the bow.

5. Look at the following sentences made with
homonyms.
Can you identify the parts of speech? Which
words are verbs, nouns and adjectives?

6. A ship shipping ship shipping shipping ships

7. A ship shipping ship shipping shipping ships
Indefinite
Compound noun phrase gerund Compound noun phrase
article

8. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo
Buffalo buffalo.

9. Proper noun phrase Proper noun phrase verb
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo
buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
verb Proper noun phrase

10. What?!
Yeah, pretty weird
huh?
Let’s take a closer
look.

11. Wasn’t that fun?
Now see if you can make some sentences with
homophones and homonyms – don’t be
scared, there’s no need to be a
homonymophobe!