Homophones2d: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
'''Perfect!'''<br/> <br/> The past tense of ''to eat'' is '''ate''' and the one-digit number lies between seven and nine. As you can hear by clicking on this [http://www.leo.org/dict/audio_en/to_look_like_the_cat_who_ate_the_canary.mp3 example ''(look like the cat who ate the canary)''], the | '''Perfect!'''<br/> <br/> The past tense of ''to eat'' is '''ate''' and the one-digit number lies between seven and nine. As you can hear by clicking on this [http://www.leo.org/dict/audio_en/to_look_like_the_cat_who_ate_the_canary.mp3 example ''(look like the cat who ate the canary)''], the past tense form sounds exactly as [http://www.leo.org/dict/audio_en/eight.mp3 eight]. Therefore, these two words are homophones but no homographs because their writing is not the same. | ||
Revision as of 00:04, 29 January 2013
Perfect!
The past tense of to eat is ate and the one-digit number lies between seven and nine. As you can hear by clicking on this example (look like the cat who ate the canary), the past tense form sounds exactly as eight. Therefore, these two words are homophones but no homographs because their writing is not the same.