23. Homophones/Homographs +More

Homophones (words that sound alike but differ in spelling and meaning), are just a great chance for ESL-Students to pick up those groups of side by side arranged words from scratch. That´s a huge advantage unlike native speakers who learn these words divided and by listening. So take the chance. You´ll also learn the pronunciation of new words by recognizing their consonance, and with it you´ll get a better "feeling" for the "burden" of English pronunciation :-). There are a lot of similar pronounced words with small but important differences as well, but that´s another challenge. For the contentious term "Homonym" go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, it pays.

An English HomophonesDictionary
http://www.earlham.edu/~peteromofone.htm
(scroll down)

Homophones AND confused words
With sample sentences, partly with audio
http://grammar.ccc.commnetrious/notorimes.htm

Alan Cooper´s Homonyms with definitions
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

About 300 Homophones
http://www.taupecat.com/personal/homophones/

Plain List
http://www.all-about-spelling.com/list-of-homophones.html
Plain List
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jyke/homophone_list.htm#English
Plain List
http://www.bifroest.demon.co.uk/misc/homophones-list.html

Homographs + Heteronyms
A Homograph is a word that has the same spelling (look alike) as another word but with a different meaning.
(Heteronyms are Homographs with different pronunciation)


Huge Heteronym Directory + Pronunciaton
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/heteronym.html

List of selected English Homographs + samples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_homographs

The Heteronym Page with Pronunciation
http://jonv.flystrip.com/heteronym/heteronym.htm

Prof. Sally Kuhlenschmidt´s Collection
Homographs in the same sentence.
http://www.wku.edu/~sally.kuhlenschmidt/homgraph.htm
! "He said that he ate jam in a traffic jam" ;-)

That´s a very interesting approach to the topic:
Homographic concordances and collocations
Version 1
http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark/cog/norms/clark.out
Version 2
http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark/cog/norms/bodner.out

Semantics: Homographs
http://www.student.seas.gwu.edu:8080/portnoy/HomographsFME

Antagonyms (Words with opposite meanings)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/antagonym.html

Pleonasms
Needless repetitions as "overused cliché" ?
http://www.wordfocus.com/pleonasm.html

Interesting
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/more.html

Interesting Spies
http://www.wordspy.com/



? More like that:
> From the author so-called: Past "Tenses":

>
>Past Simple               I went
>Past Emphatic             I did go
>Past progressive          I was going
>Past Perfect              I had gone
>Past Perfect Progressive  I had been going

Past Necessitive              I had to go
Past Usitative                I used to go
Past Intentional              I was going to go
Past Potential                I might have gone
Past Potential Progressive    I might have been going
Past Potential Necessitive    I might have had to go
Past Potential Intentional    I might have been going to go
Past Perfect Intentional      I had been going to go
Past Perfect Necessitive      I had had to go
Past Usitative Necessitive    I used to have to go
Past Habilitative             I could go
Past Contrahabilitative       I could have gone
Past Conditional              I would go
Past Contraconditional        I would have gone

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue.html