Homophones

On page 8 of your book, Poorvi, there is a table of word pairs from 'A Bottle of Dew'. The two words in each pair sound the same, but they have different spellings and different meanings. Such words are called homophones.

Here are the book's pairs. 'I' (me) and 'eye' (the part of your body you see with). 'Your' (belonging to you) and 'you're' (short for 'you are'). 'Dew' (drops of water on leaves) and 'due' (expected to happen). 'Son' (a boy child) and 'sun' (the star that gives us light). 'One' (the number 1) and 'won' (the past tense of win). 'Ate' (the past tense of eat) and 'eight' (the number 8). 'See' (to look) and 'sea' (a large area of salt water).

When you write, you must choose the spelling whose meaning fits the sentence. Your book gives this example with both words of one pair: 'I ate eight bananas for breakfast today.' 'Ate' tells what I did, and 'eight' tells how many.