Grammar Game

hom·o·nym

/?häm??nim/

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noun
plural noun: homonyms

1. each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins.
   "students often struggle with homonyms"
   • Biology
     a Latin name which is identical to that of a different organism, the newer of the two names being invalid.
     "because Pinus tenuifolia is a later homonym, a new name must be provided"

What prizes will be distributed?

Won't be long before the clocks spring forward for Spring.

So look left and right befor you cross the road. (ooops, I left a letter out there, right?)

These words are commonly confused, even by native English speakers:

YOUR vs YOU’RE

THEIR vs THEY’RE

In each example, the first word is a possessive pronoun. “That is YOUR jacket. They live in THEIR apartment.”

The second word is a contraction. A contraction shortens the phrase “you are” or “they are.” Replace the “a” in “are” with an apostrophe.

Apply this rule and decide which is correct:

(a) THEY’RE DINNER WAS TASTY or (b) THEIR DINNER WAS TASTY

(a) I AM SURPRISED THAT YOUR GOING or (b) I AM SURPRISED THAT YOU’RE GOING

If you picked (b) for each choice, you are correct!

As we danced under the glittery night sky, I had the strangest feeling of nostalgia. The moonlight kissed her opalescent skin, we swayed in the breeze like branches in the trees.