This resource can be found here. It is part of our online nonfiction collection of items that you have free access to with a library card. All you have to do is scroll down to the bottom of this page, and log in.
This first 'Grammar time' is going to look at something that can confuse anybody. Homonyms and homophones ... big words that mean big, fun things.
Homonyms are words that are spelled the same and sound the same, but have different meanings. As you can see from the cover of this book, the word 'bear' is both spelled exactly the same and sounds the same when you say it, but it has two different meanings.
So, in the title of this book:
Bear means the animal and
Bear means how much one person can handle
So that is what a homonym is!
Homophones are words that sound the same, but are both spelled differently and mean different things. Again, the example on the cover uses the words 'bare' and 'bear' to show this. These words are spelled differently and mean different things, but sound the same.
So:
Bare is b, a, r, e and means to wear no clothes (like in the cover image) and
Bear is b, e, a, r and means the animal
You might not be interested in understading the names of these kinds of words; but knowing the difference is important when you are writing documents or even learning to read and write.
The good thing about our eResource collection, is that this book by Cleary and Gable is written in a fun way that gives readers a lot of examples of both homonyms and homophones. The illustrations are fun too! It is also written for younger audiences, so it won't take long.
Have a look at the book; or try and find other homonyms and homophones to play around with!
Words are fun! Get it right when you write, and one by one, you'll have won at 'Grammar time'!
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