In light of my list of homophones last week, I thought I’d look at HOMOGRAPHS this week.
These are words that are spelled the same but pronounced different and sometimes have radically different meanings. Sometimes, it’s a matter of the emphasis being on a different syllable. Rather than simply listing them or defining them, I thought it would be fun to use them in sentences to highlight the differences.
I have READ this book.
I will READ that book.
My husband plays BASS guitar.
The man went fishing and caught a BASS.
We need to make more PROGRESS during these meetings, because we have not PROGRESSED fast enough toward our goal.
He went to a LIVE concert.
LIVE life well.
The DOVE cooed.
The man DOVE into the water.
Be careful not to TEAR the book pages.
A TEAR rolled down her cheek.
She put a BOW in her hair.
The front of a boat is the BOW.
SOW a layer of seeds in the ground.
The SOW has ten little piglets.
Wait here for a MINUTE.
A MINUTE fraction of an inch.
The music group will RECORD a RECORD.
Pencils are made with LEAD.
LEAD the way.
The WIND blew through the trees.
WIND the yarn into a ball.
She WOUND the yarn into a ball.
The hurtful words have opened an old WOUND.
Like with homophones, these were the HOMOGRAPH that popped into my head, so I’m sure that there are many, many that I have missed.
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THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.Washington State, 1893
When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available in ebook and paperback.
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MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:
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