Page 425 - Anantmaya Handbook 2020 - 2021
P. 425

HOMOPHONES









 IMAGE COURTESY : PINTEREST  IMAGE COURTESY : PINTEREST

















 Certain words look extremely weird. No matter how many times  Homophones are words having the same sound but different meanings.In the daily vocabulary, a lot of
 we  may  write  to  them,  these  words  don’t  get  straight  into  our   these Homophones get swapped in the usage resulting in chaos and confusion. This is very dangerous
 TRICKY  mind. These are the words that we either misspell them or struggle   because we may end up conveying something opposite to what we had thought.  Some words that get
              swapped in the usage are “their”, “there” and “they’re”. People often get confused while using words like
 to know whether we are right or wrong.  A lot of errors occur with
 WORDS  tricky words or with words that include accent marks, like entrée   “Your” and “you’re”. The list goes on.  It’s better to check every word twice before sending it for printing
 and purée. Even if we want to ignore these types  of words, we   just to avoid confusion and refraining from the communication from going wrong.
 encounter them often in wedding words.


                                          ANANTMA Y A                                            425
   420   421   422   423   424   425   426   427   428   429   430