Grammar Question

[dolo amber]

What are these words called...not homonyms, not homophones...anybody? :shrug:


READ - "I READ that book."
READ - "I would like to READ that book."

LIVE - "Where does he LIVE?"
LIVE - "I've seen that band LIVE."

Etc...words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and are pronounced differently. I've googled myself silly and I'm either not phrasing it right or something, cos I can't find jack dammit. :(

[La_Serpiente]

1. I'm not sure

I can give you the part of speech and tense, but I am not sure.

[Dookus]

2. they're homographs

[FlashHarry]

3. phone = sound; graph = writing

Homographs. You are correct, Sir!

[dolo amber]

4. YAY!

THANK YOU!!

:yourock:

This was just one of those things that was stuck in my head. I seriously looked about a million places before I posted. Why would that be so hard to find?! :shrug:

[Stone Cold]

5. huked en fonix werkd fer mi

ahuk

[Booberdawg]

6. Hey Dolo

Can't remember where I got this link, but it comes in handy for questions like this.

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm

[dolo amber]

7. Fantastic !!

I think you may have gotten it here. I had this bookmarked after seeing in a thread a few weeks ago, unfortunately it got lost when I reformatted because I neglected to back up my faves. :mad:

Thanks, Booberdawg!! :hi:

[Booberdawg]

8. Yes I did get it here - a loooooong time ago

Happens to me every couple years - my hard drive takes a shit and I loose everything....

[GAspnes]

9. I've played this game

had a list of hundreds at one time:

bow
contract
lame
prescience

etc, etc.