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their / there / they’re — Their office is there, and they’re already inside.
8 Homophones Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
Before you copy
What to notice in the examples
A useful homophone guide emphasizes meaning and sentence context, because spelling cannot be chosen from sound alone when two or more words are pronounced alike.
- Start with the defining relationship behind homophones: same or near-same sound with different meaning.
- Group examples by the feature that matters to a writer—sound, spelling, meaning, syllable pattern, formation, or usage—rather than presenting an unstructured list.
- Test each example in a sentence so readers can see how the word behaves in context and where common confusion occurs.
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your / you’re — Your draft is ready when you’re ready to review it.
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to / too / two — We sent two copies to Maya too.
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pair / pear — She packed a pear beside a matching pair of gloves.
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right / write — Write the right account number on the form.
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sea / see — From the hill, we could see the sea.
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principal / principle — The principal explained the school’s guiding principle.
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stationary / stationery — The bicycle stayed stationary beside the stationery shop.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.