Are you ready for this? You might be disappointed… but let’s be positive (it is new year after all!).
All you need to do is read these sentances… but with the correct pronounciation!
- The bandage was wound around the wound
- The farm was cultivated to produce produce
- The refuse dump was so full that the workers had to refuse more refuse
- They started to polish the Polish furniture at the store
- She could lead if only she could get her lead out
- The desert soldier decided to desert his tasty dessert
- Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present his present to his wife
- A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum
- When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes
- I did not object to the object that he showed me
- The insurance was invalid for the invalid in his hospital bed
- There was a row among the oarsmen about who would row
- She was not close enough to the door to be able to close it
- The buck does strange things when the does are present
- To help with planting, the farmer managed to teach his sow to sow
- The wind was just too strong for the sailors to wind the sail around the mast
- Upon seeing the tear in her favourite painting she started to shed a tear
- I had to subject the subject to a series of tests
- How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
- After wrecking his moped, he moped around all day long
How did you do with these ‘heteronyms’? – these are words with the same spelling but with a different pronounciation – let us know in the comments!
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