Homograph Essay

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Determine Homograph in the Term of Linguistic Alexander Revi Benni Saputra Sanata Dharma University Homograph means “written the same,” and homographs are words with the same spelling, but either a different meaning or a different pronunciation, or both. Bear the noun referring to an animal and bear meaning “to carry” are examples of a set of homographs that have the same spelling but a different meaning. Read, which serves as both the present tense of a verb when it is pronounced /REED/ and the past tense form when it is pronounced /RED/, is an example of a homograph with a different meaning and a different pronunciation in each instance. Don’t confuse homograph with homophone, which means “sounds the same.” Even though some homographs — those in the first group above — are also homophones, not all homographs are. The special name for a word that is both a homograph and a homophone is homonym. It’s also important to distinguish homographs, which are separate and distinct words with different origins, from words with multiple meanings all rooted in the same origin. This article will discuss how determine homograph. There are a lot of words in dictionary that have a lot of meaning too. In writing, mistaking homographs makes absolutely no difference, because they are not distinguishable in writing. Moreover, they are pronounced differently, when you read them aloud or if you - as many, perhaps most, people do - subvocalize as you read, you need to know which of the pronunciations to choose. Homographs are words that are spelled identically. This article has information on homographs, differentiating homographs, homophones, and homonyms, and how to identify homographs. Keep reading for more information on homographs. If one is only using the distinctions homophones - which refers to words that sound alike - and homographs, one can stop there with the definition. But

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