Q.3 (A) What is Homonym? Define with examples (any two)
(B) What is Homophone? Define with examples (any two)
(C) Differentiate the meaning the following words using them in a sentences.
i. Meat-Meet
ii. Flour-Flower
iii. One-won
iv. Pear-Pair.
Answers
Explanation:
A)
each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins.
Examples are:
Address - to speak to / location.
Air - oxygen / a lilting tune.
Arm - body part / division of a company.
Band - a musical group / a ring.
Bark - a tree's out layer / the sound a dog makes.
Bat - an implement used to hit a ball / a nocturnal flying mammal.
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Explanation:
(A) Homonym can be troublesome because it may refer to three distinct classes of words. Homonyms may be words with identical pronunciations but different spellings and meanings, such as to, too, and two. Or they may be words with both identical pronunciations and identical spellings but different meanings, such as quail (the bird) and quail (to cringe). Finally, they may be words that are spelled alike but are different in pronunciation and meaning, such as the bow of a ship and bow that shoots arrows. The first and second types are sometimes called homophones, and the second and third types are sometimes called homographs—which makes naming the second type a bit confusing. Some language scholars prefer to limit homonym to the third type.
Examples of homonym in a Sentence
The noun “bear” and the verb “bear” are homonyms.
(B) A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning. A homophone may also differ in spelling. The two words may be spelled the same, as in rose (flower) and rose (past tense of rise), or differently, as in rain, reign, and rein.