Homophone, Homonyms, and Homographs are a special groups of words that many people mix up and get confused with.
Homophones are words that are spelt differently, sound the same , but don't mean the same. For example I rode to school. Road is something that a car drives on and rode is when you ride your bike somewhere.
Homographs are words that have the same spelling but you say it differently and do not mean the same. Like lead and lead. lead is a heavy metal and lead is to guide someone.
Homonyms are words that sound the same, have the same spelling, but different meaning. For example scale and scale.
Scale is fish skin and scale is for weighting people.
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