Listen to the words and type them correctly to improve your spelling.
In this second set of homophones, words like whose and who’s or wood and would can trip up learners because they sound identical but have different spellings and meanings. For example, whose shows possession, while who’s is a contraction of who is or who has. Similarly, wood refers to the material from trees, while would expresses a conditional action.
Learning these homophones will help you avoid common writing mistakes. To check your understanding, try a spelling game and see how well you know these tricky word pairs!
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Learn more in Unit 18. Irregular common words – common errors e.g. would, who, does
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