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Practice Exercise 10 A, B, C
Homonyms
- What is a homonym? Write a complete definition and give one example.
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- Pick the word that best completes the sentences.
- Kate always eats (cereal, serial) for breakfast.
- My grandfather planted these sugar maples on both sides of the
(lain, lane) about sixty years ago.
- Try to (steal, steel) third base on the next pitch.
- This (cite, site) will be used to build a memorial park.
- The mother duck (lead, led) her ducklings across the street to
the pond.
- Please remain (stationary, stationery) until the plane comes
to a complete stop.
- I have enrolled in the truck driving (coarse, course) in Miramichi.
- Be sure to brush your horse’s (main, mane).
- Have you heard the (tail, tale) of Davy Crocket?
- All that was left in the bottom of the bowl was unpopped (colonels,
kernels) of popcorn.
- Write one sentence with each word. Use the word correctly.
- minor _____________________________________________________________________________
- there _____________________________________________________________________________
- complement _______________________________________________________________________
- knead ____________________________________________________________________________
- through ___________________________________________________________________________
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