which one among the pairs is not an example of homophone (i) flour-flower (ii)air-hair (iii)rye-wry (iv)ideal-idol
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Answer:
Homophone is a word that is pronounced like another word, but has a different spelling or meaning, for example the words ‘some’, and ‘sum’.
In the given pairs of words the following pairs are not homophones:
ideal-idol
air-hair
The words in these pairs don’t pronounce the same.
Air and hair are not homophones.
Answer: Option (ii)
Explanation:
The word homophones is made up of two Latin words-homo and phone. Homo means the same and phone means sound. Thus homophones are same sounding words. Thus flower and flour, bare and bear have the same sound but hair and air are not pronounced the same way.
Hair begins with the phoneme /h/ while air begins with /e/. These two words are rhyming words but they do not sound the same. There sounds are different and thus they are not homophones.