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Missed & Mist

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Missed and Mist

Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings or spellings. Let's look at an example...

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Missed

  • You missed your flight!
    • Missed is the past tense of 'miss'. If you have missed something, you have either not hit it (like a target) or been too late for something (like a flight!).
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Mist

  • The mist settled on the moors.
    • Mist is fog.

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