Tamilnadu state board 10th standard English Guide Homophones

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Homophones or confuesables

Homophones are one of the groups of words pronounced alike but differ in meaning and spelling or both. (e.g.) carat,

carrot; week, weak and hear, here.


Rewrite the following sentences by using the correct homophones for words:


Fill in with the right confusable to make a meaningful sentence

1. Hours. is a big clock, (ours/hours)

2. The colour of your 

hair. is black, (hare/hair)

3. Gold is measured in Carat (carrot/carat)

4. I sent a Mail to my friend, (mail/male)

5. The  dew seated on the top of the flowers and made the flower look more beatiful. (due/dew)

6. Sparrows were seen here long ago. (scene/seen)

7. Give me a ring when you reach home, (wring/ring)

8. How the youngest bird flies across the sea is a puzzle! (see/sea)

9. Last week  he did not attend school since he was  Weak (weak/week)

10. Those who are conscious of their conscience  dare not do mistakes.(conscience/conscious)

11. Nivedha’s adopted  son adapted himself to the new environment, (adapted/adopted)

12. The book which has been prescribed for the BA class has been proscribed for containing some marks against a particular religion, (proscribed/prescribed)

13. Tommy was walking around the forest with his bare feet when he was attacked by the  bear (bear/bare).

14. In the story, St.Michael, a fairy was seated in a  ferry (ferry/fairy).

15. I wanted to buy a pair of bangles but I ended buying pears . (pair/pears)

16. Every  knight my grandmother would tell be a story about a  night to help me grow courageous, (knight/night)

17. We had to wait patiently, in spite of carrying a heavy  weight (weight/wait)

18. The hair of the hare is always soft and silky, (hare/hair)

19. When teaching my son how to drive, I told him if he didn’t hit the  brake in time he would break the car’s side mirror, (break/brake)

20. If you sell drugs, you will get arrested and end up in a prison cell. (cell/sell)

21. Karthik won’t spend one cent  on a bottle of perfume until he knows that he loves the scent (sent/scent/cent) 

22. If you accidentally drink a bottle of fabric dye you might die  (die/dye)

23. To bake a Flower shaped cake, you’ll need some all-purpose flour. (flour/flower)

24. If the heel breaks on your sandal, you might fall. However, your injuries will heal in a week’s time, (heal/heel)

25. I wanted to sit here so I could hear the mimicry performance without any distractions, (hear/here)

26. He held the railing as he walked down the stairs (stairs/stares)

27. It's going to rain today weather (weather/whether) you like it or not.

28. The tree blew (blue/blew) over in the storm

29. They weren't allowed (allowed/aloud) to take their dog into the store.

30. He chopped the onions on the cutting Board  (board/bored).