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Read the following sentence and determine if the words in bold are homographs or homophones. Then, choose the answer that correctly identifies which type it is and correctly defines what homograph or homophone means.
Mother announced that the plain cream cheese was not to be eaten until we were crossing the plains in Kansas.
A. Homograph; the two words are pronounced the same but have different meanings and sometimes different spellings.
B. Homophone; the two words are written the same but have different meanings and sometimes different pronunciations.
C. Homophone; the two words are pronounced the same but have different meanings and sometimes different spellings.
D. Homograph; the two words are written the same but have different meanings and sometimes different pronunciations.
Answer:
C. Homophone; the two words are pronounced the same but have different meanings and sometimes different spellings.
Explanation:
The words "plain" and "plains" are examples of homophones. This means that these words have the same pronunciation, but have totally different meanings, within a sentence. Often, homophone words have the same spelling, or slightly different spellings as is the case for "plain" and "plains", but the real way to identify this type of word is through the same pronoun, but with a different meaning.
Homograph, on the other hand, are words that are written in the same way, but have different meanings.
