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Weather & Whether

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Weather and Whether

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

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Weather

  • This weather has been lovely.
    • The weather is what the atmosphere is doing - so if it's sunny, rainy, stormy, windy and so on.
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Whether

  • Do you know whether you are coming to the party?
    • Whether is a word we use when we are asking a question with two different answers.
    • So to the above question, the answer could be 'yes' or 'no'.

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