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In the following sentences, find the words which can have homo-
graphs in the English vocabulary. Provide these homographs.
1. Without the right date stamped on it, your ticket will be
invalid.
2. Clergymen bow their heads in prayer.
3. The statue was covered with minute particles of gold-dust.
4. Tom sat on a chair close to the window.
5. There will be live TV coverage of tonight’s big match.
6. Polish is a West Slavic language and the official language of
Poland.
exeRCIse 59.
In the following sentences, find the words which can stand in
homonymic relations with the other words in the English vocabu-
lary. Give the homonyms to these words, define their type and
explain the meanings.
1. The slender, flexible right hand was badly cut and grazed.
2. It appeared as if there was a sort of match or trial of skill
you must understand between the kettle and the cricket (Ch.
D.).
3. He who fasts till he is sick must fast till he is well.
4. At the bank of the river one can see hundreds of frogs.
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5. In the back yard children were playing, elderly women were
gossiping and near one of the benches cats were fooling
around.
6. Still waters have deep bottoms.
7. In the sink a pile of plates waited for someone to wash them
up.
8. The rest of the bridegroom’s friends left the wedding party
without saying the word.
9. Her children now and then noisily stamp down the stairs.
10. His olive crop was plentiful, the branches were laden; it was
now necessary to harvest the olives and pickle them up.
11. A drove of lizards and salamanders, blinded by the sudden
light, had slithered into the shadow.
exeRCIse 60.
The following words can have homonyms. Prove it by building
collocations with these homonyms.
Bark, bat, bill, blow, can, date, fast, mean, mood, pupil, rock,
sack, scale, school, spell, tap.
exeRCIse 61.
Give the homophones to the following words and make colloca-
tions with each of the homonyms in the homonymic pairs.
Bawl, bean, blue, bred, coarse, dye, fair, flour, grate, hare, heir,
herd, higher, hour, knew, made, night, not, paced, pane, plain,
plumb, principle, prophet, read, reign, rite, road, seen, sight,
soar, sow, tail, threw, thyme, tide, wait, weak, where, whole,
wholly, won, would.
Systenatic .Character .of .the .Vocabulary: .Synonyms, .Antonyms, .Homonums
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exeRCIse 62.
Give your reasoning why these sentences can cause misunder-
standing and confusion in pronunciation or meaning.
1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was
time to present the present.
8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
exeRCIse 63.
In the sentences given below, find homonyms. Identify the type
of the homonyms according to the classification based on corre-
sponding paradigms of different parts of speech.
1. a) When she left the room, an odour of rose lingered around
the nursery. b) The prices in High Street rose sharply as the
result of economic crisis.
2. a) She could not bear the pain and reached for the pain re-
lief. b) Her bare arms look pail as if she never exposed them
to the sun.
3. a) The bough of the tree was full in blooms and bees were
buzzing around. b) Before them stood an Indian with a bow
and arrows.
4. a) He is delighted to read his name written in the morning
papers. b) I read “The Fourth Hand” by John Irving during
summer holidays.
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5. a) They prefer to lead their life of rich and successful mem-
bers of community. b) Lead melts easily and is poisonous.
6. a) He was in the habit of figuring out, while lying like this,
how and what he could do throughout the day. b) Lying was
not his habit but a hobby.
7. a) Harry pulled on his pants and went to bathe at the well.
b) The final test was written quite well, although the teacher
clearly expressed her dissatisfaction.
8. a) Andrew was silent. With his back turned, he watched that
bicycle leaned against the wall near the barn door. b) He
wanted to back the car from the garage the moment light-
ning struck a nearby tree.
9. a) Long, long ago, someone had cemented a thick iron chain
into the eastern wall of Jacob’s stone cottage below the win-
dow. b) He enjoyed his new washing machine because now it
did the laundry instead of him and dried the clothes quickly.
However, he hated to iron blankets and pillows.
10. a) Her mother went to the shops, and on her return, Kath-
leen was nowhere to be found. b) You could found a small
business if you had enough knowledge, experience and re-
quired capital.
11. a) I just don’t know what to do – every solution I can think of
would just open up a whole new can of worms. b) You can
lead the horse to the water, but you cannot force him drink
it.
12. a) I believe that this is a case where a little white lie is really
more appropriate than the truth. b) When you lie down you
are in position in which your body is flat on some surface.
13. a) When I entered the room, the dog was lying dead on
the floor. b) “We were on vacation in Barbados a few years
ago and we met Freddie Mercury in a bar”, says Phil, lying
through his teeth.
Systenatic .Character .of .the .Vocabulary: .Synonyms, .Antonyms, .Homonums
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14. a) You shouldn’t be sitting here by yourself, all alone. b) All
was dark and silent down by the harbour wall.
exeRCIse 64.
Spell the word given in the phonetic script and provide its homo-
nymic pair.
1. That meeting achieved absolutely nothing - it was a com-
plete /we
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