Homophone words usually are very difficult to differentiate. The fact that they have the same sound, becomes the reason for using the wrong word from the pair. This makes the sentence incorrect, and also less comprehensible. One such homophone pair that causes a common mix-up is Staid and Stayed. They sound so similar, that many […]
Before you read on, you should check out the first part of this article Homophones That Every English Speaker Should Know (Part 1). Let’s take a quick recap. Homophones are those words that sound similar to one another but have different meanings and spellings. There are so many such homophones that we use in our […]
Doesn’t this happen, that you are so good with your hold on the English language, and yet sometimes, even the basic spellings confuse you? For example, you wrote something, and suddenly you wonder whether you had written ‘wait’ instead of weight. Even though these homophones words are elementary, one could get confused in the flow […]