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Top 10 British English Homophones

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Today’s lesson is going to be about homophones. These are words that sound alike, but, are spelt differently. Learning more about these homophones will help you improve your English listening skills and ultimately it will help you understand native speakers like myself. So, if you want to improve your listening comprehension, keep watching the first homophones are effect and effect what is the difference I actually get questions about these words quite frequently in the comments section. well, effect with an a is a verb the illness did not affect me an effect with an, e, is a noun the illness didn’t have an effect on me. the next time a phone is which. And which. which is the pronoun that we all know and love I’m wearing a red top which I bought in London. And a witch is a scary or nasty woman normally.

Number three. We have here and hear. well they’re both pronounced in exactly the same way. but, one here is a pronoun to indicate a location whoops I definitely meant to say adverb. Sorry about that. So, we’ve got can you come here and the other one hear again is a verb to hear something to indicate listening. can you come and hear this? For example.

Number four, ah and ah, ah the first one is a form of the verb.To be these are my students and the other a plural possessive form of we. This is our classroom then we’ve got bye and bye. by with B Y is a preposition. Indicating location. I am by the door. Buy with Buy is a verb meaning to purchase are you going to buy this?

Number six weather and weather. This weather means the state of the atmosphere. The weather is very nice today. Whereas the other weather is a conjunction to introduce choices could you tell me whether, you prefer to go out or stay in?

Number seven, there, there and there. This there can act as many different parts of speech. it can be a pronoun. For example there are a lot of people then we have there which is a pronoun, my students forgot their books.

Finally we have there which is a contraction of they are. They’re very nice people. they are very nice people.

Then we have two. two and two. Well, firstly we’ve got two. The number two I have two pets a dog and a cat and we’ve got two, which can mean excessively or also I am too tired to go out or I will come to the final two can be used to indicate an infinitive. Do you want to go out? It can also be a preposition. I am going to the park.

Then we have your and your. The first one your. Is a pronoun don’t forget your coat. The second one is a contraction for you. Are you’re going to get cold, if you don’t wear a coat?

And number ten, we have one and one. The first one, oh and E, refers to the number one. A single unit.

For example I have one nose thankfully. It would be terrible if I had to the other word W o n one again is the past tense for the verb to win. So, I recently won a competition.

Alright guys that was my video on the top 10 British English. Homeophones. I hope you found it useful.