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Homophone

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Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both. For example, bare and bear or to, two, and too.

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Homophones
possessive
Homophone's
pluralpossessive
Homophones'

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Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both. For example, bare and bear or to, two, and too.

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