2.7.7

Grate & Great

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Grate and Great

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

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Grate

  • You should grate the cheese for the sandwich.
    • To grate means to shred.
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Great

  • You are great!
    • Great means really good!

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1Reading

2Writing

2.1Composition

2.2Conjunctions

2.3Present Perfect Tense

2.4Nouns

2.5Fronted Adverbials

2.6Direct Speech

2.7Homophones

2.8Spelling Rules

2.9Using Apostrophes

2.10Using a Dictionary

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