LA Sixth grade W.1 Use the correct homophone

Complete the sentence with the correct homophone.

Dr. Maxwell has ..... whom she has been treating for more than twenty years.

• patients

• patience

Complete the sentence with the correct homophone.

Our kitten likes to rub her soft, furry face against Dad's ..... beard.

• course

• coarse

Complete the sentence with the correct homophone.

In the large field just north of the ranch house, they ..... corn.

• sow

• so

• sew

Complete the sentence with the correct homophone.

Mona took off her gold ..... while she was washing the dishes, and then she accidentally left it beside the sink.

• ring

• wring

Complete the sentence with the correct homophone.

The highest ..... in Ethiopia is Ras Dashen, which has an elevation of almost fifteen thousand feet.

• peak

• peek

Complete the sentence with the correct homophone.

John took a big bite of the .....

and savored its sweet, delicate flavor.

• pear

• pair

Complete the sentence with the correct homophone.

When Estelle enters a room, people are immediately drawn to her, and her .....

always livens up a party.

• presence

• presents

Complete the sentence with the correct homophone.

In an especially memorable moment of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, Odysseus and his crew land on an ..... full of one-eyed, man-eating giants called Cyclopes.

• isle

• I'll

• aisle

Complete the sentence with the correct homophone.

I ...... odd jobs for my grandparents each summer, like washing windows and helping to repaint the front porch.

• dew

• do

• due

Complete the sentence with the correct homophone.

The new trench will ..... the chance that the creek will flood into the street during heavy rains.

• lessen

• lesson