Words which sound alike but have different spellings are known as homophones. The pairs of words can be a bit challenging to those learning English online listening. The homophones your and you're often confuses even native English speakers.
You're is a combination of the words, you and are. This is called a contraction. So, whenever you see the word you're, you can read it as you are and it will still make sense.
Homonyms are words that have different meanings but are pronounced or spelled the same way. There are two types of homonyms: homophones and homographs. Homophones sound the same but are often spelled differently.
The homophone for 'you're' is 'your'. 'You're' is a contraction of the words 'you' and 'are' and is used to replace those terms in a sentence, for example, 'You're the nicest person I've ever met'. 'Your' is a possessive indicating the ownership of...
Homographs are spelled the same, but differ in meaning or pronunciation. Homonyms can be either or even both. To help remember, think of the etymology: homophones have the same sound (the Greek phonos), homographs have the same spelling (Greek graphein), and homonym comes from the Greek word meaning "name" (onyma).
Examples of homographs are bow, bat, lead, fine, down, wind, tear, fair, close, desert, minute, accent, buffet, content, compact, object, wound, produce, subject, attribute, etc.
The -graph in homograph means “written.” Homographs are words that are written the same—meaning they always have the same spelling—but have different meanings. Homographs can be pronounced the same or not. For example, bass (the fish, rhymes with class) and bass (the instrument, rhymes with ace) are homographs.
Why is it called a portmanteau? The French word portmanteau describes a two-part suitcase. It combines the words porte, which means “to carry,” and manteau, meaning “cloak.” Like the suitcase, a portmanteau word holds or carries the meaning of two or more words.
These two words sound alike, but mixing up you're vs. your is an embarrassing mistake that is easy to avoid. Your is a possessive adjective and modifies nouns. You're is a contraction of the two words you are.
Examples of relative pronouns include who, whom, whose, which and that. Here are some examples of how relative pronouns can be used in sentences. Sheela, who is a teacher, also works as a social worker.
Two words can be homographs, but not homophones. For example, “row” (use oars) and “row” (argument) are heteronyms because they employ different sounds, while “mean” (signify) and “mean” (average) are not heteronyms because they are pronounced the same (these are called homonyms). Most heteronyms come in pairs.
A heteronym (also known as a heterophone) is a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning from another word but the same spelling.
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and may or may not be spelled differently (by, buy, bye). Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings or pronunciations (bow, referring to the noun and verb).
In this lesson, I go over nine common sets of homophones: byte / bite, hear / here, sense / cents / scents, ate / eight, Czech / check / cheque, cell / sell, clothes / close, cereal / serial, chews / choose.
Homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have more than one meanings (e.g., bat – the animal – and bat – used for hitting). If the word is also pronounced differently, it is a heteronym.
A homograph is a word that has the same spelling as another word but they have different meanings and different pronunciations. Some examples include: tear (A tear rolled down his cheek.) and tear (She decided to tear the paper into pieces.)
So, homographs are words that are written/spelled the same but have different meanings and are sometimes pronounced (how we say words) differently.