Sound a like words Part Three

Sound a like words Part Three

Here is the third set of sound-alike words. Study and use them well.
  • plain: not adorned; piece of land
    She wore a plain dress to the event.
    The horses moved quickly across the plain.
    plane: a piece of aircraft
    How heavy is that plane with all those passengers aboard it now?
  • principal: the school’s leader; the most important
    The committee met in the principal’s office.
    This highway is the principal road in this county.
    principle: rule of conduct or main fact
    Jeremiah could readily understand that science principle.
  • their: owned by a group
    Their clubhouse was made by Frank Miller.
    there: place; sentence starter
    He lives right there.
    There are many reasons to vote for Brianna Feller.
    they’re: contraction for they + are
    They’re moving to Canada after the school year ends.
  • theirs: possessive of their
    That boat is theirs.
    there’s: contraction for there + is
    There’s my dad on his motorcycle.
  • to: preposition; start of an infinitive
    He went to school.
    ‘‘To be’’ is an infinitive.
    too: more than enough
    Perry was too tired to run fast.
    two: one plus one
    Two people were approaching the door.
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  • Active and passive voices
  • agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents
  • agreement involving prepositional phrases
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  • Commas Part Four
  • Commas Part One
  • Commas Part Three
  • Commas Part Two
  • complete and simple predicates
  • complete and simple subjects
  • complex sentences
  • compound complex sentences
  • compound prepositions and the preposition adverb question
  • compound subject and compound predicate
  • compound subjects part two
  • compound subjects part one
  • Confusing usage words part eight
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  • Confusing usage words part one
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  • Confusing usage words part six
  • Confusing usage words part three
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  • First Capitalization List
  • indefinite pronouns
  • Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case
  • introducing clauses
  • introducing phrases
  • Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
  • irregular verbs part one
  • irregular verbs part two
  • Italics Hyphens and Brackets
  • Misplaced and dangling modifiers
  • More Apostrophe Situations
  • More subject verb agreement situations
  • Parentheses Ellipsis Marks and Dashes
  • Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
  • personal pronouns
  • pronouns and their antecedents
  • Quotation Marks Part Three
  • Quotation Marks Part One
  • Quotation Marks Part Two
  • reflexive demonstrative and interrogative pronouns
  • Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
  • regular verb tenses
  • Second Capitalization List
  • sentences fragments and run on sentences
  • singular and plural nouns and pronouns
  • Sound a like words Part Four
  • Sound a like words Part Three
  • Sound a like words Part Two
  • Sound alike words part one
  • subject and verb agreement
  • subject complements predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives
  • subject verb agreement situations
  • the adjective
  • the adjective clause
  • the adjective phrase
  • the adverb
  • the adverb clause
  • the adverb phrase
  • The Apostrophe
  • the appositive
  • The Colon
  • The coordinating conjunction
  • the correlative conjunction
  • the direct object
  • the gerund and gerund phrase
  • the indirect object
  • the infinitive and infinitive phrase
  • The nominative case
  • the noun
  • the noun adjective pronoun question
  • the noun clause
  • the object of the preposition
  • the participle and participial phrase
  • The possessive case
  • The possessive case 2
  • The possessive case and pronouns
  • the preposition
  • the prepositional phrase
  • the pronoun
  • The Semicolon
  • the subordinating conjunction
  • the verb
  • The verb be
  • the verb phrase
  • Transitive and intransitive verbs
  • types of nouns
  • types of sentences by purpose
  • Using Capital Letters
  • what good writers do
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