HOMOPHONES

1. Can you complete this verse with the three appropriate homophones?

I met a gentle antelope,

Just born in a zoo.

And I only wish that I

Knew as much as that

______ ______ ______ .

2. Can you think of two words that are homophones, such that by adding the same letter to the front of each word, you get two new words which are also homophones?

3. Can you think of a seven-letter word beginning with BR which, when an E is inserted into it, becomes its eight-letter homophone?

4. Can you think of a homophone for RECREATION that tells us what we should not do when we're on vacation?

Answers:

1. NEW, GNU, KNEW

2. RITE/RIGHT (WRITE/WRIGHT)

3. BRAKING/BREAKING

4. WRECK CREATION