Assessment questions
A. Choose the correct word from the brackets and complete the sentences.
1. Mother bought some (currant, current) for the cake.
2. The car was on (sail, sale) last weekend.
3. The wounded victim of the collapsed building gave a (loud, aloud) ( groan, grown).
4. We must (higher, hire) a motor boat at island.
5. The children broke a (pain, pane) of glass
6. The whole, (hole crowd) demonstrated in the streets.
7. (there, the) library books are on the shelf.
8. The (stationary, stationery) van distributed textbooks to the schools
9. (practise, practice) makes perfect.
10. My mother felt so (week, weak) after her sickness.
11. The sight, site of blood after the accident made me sick.
12. The (principle, principal) of the school is retiring soon.
B. Give sentences one for each word showing clearing the meaning of each homophone.
- stair stare
- road rode
- plain plane
- right write
- son sun
- tail tale
- key quay
- desert dessert
- sail sale
- blew blue
- die dye
- mare mayor
- scene seen
- none nun
- pair pear
- peace piece
- principal principle
- sole soul
- weak week
