C) Some people prefer draught beer. They say bottles give beer a different taste

9)

a) I live in the north of England.

b) Your favourite pop star is singing live on TV tonight.

10)

a) The lead singer in the group is great.

b) Lead pipes are dangerous.

11)

a) The wind blew the tree down.

b) Don’t forget to wind your watch.

12)

a) I wound my watch last night.

b) He suffered a terrible wound in the war.

13)

a) Some students at Oxford spend more time learning to row well than studying.

b) They shared a flat for ages until they had a row over money and split up.

14)

a) They lived in a large old house.

b) The buildings house a library and two concert halls as well as a theatre.

15)

a) The sow has five piglets.

b) The farmers sow the seeds in the spring.

16)

a) I bathed the baby this morning.

b) We bathed in the sea every day when we were on holiday.

EXERCISE 13. Write a homophone for each of the following words.

Two, eye, waste, male, wear, war, here, pair, wait, steel, bored, caught, meet, nose, blue, red, born, so, rain, one, write, piece, berry, morning, sell, course, tire, principal, hole, main.

EXERCISE 14. Do the following italicized words represent homonyms or polysemantic words? Give reasons for your answers.

26 letters of the ABC, to receive letters regularly; to propose a toast, an underdone toast; a hand of the clock, to hold a pen in one’s hand; to be 6 foot long, at the foot of the mountain; the capital of a country, to have a big capital (money); to date back to year 1870, to have a date with somebody; to be engaged to Mr Smith, to be engaged in conversation; to peel the bark off the branch, to bark loudly at the stranger; to make a fire, to sit at the fire(place).

EXERCISE 15. Choose the correct word for each space. Identify the linguistic phenomenon.

Misused, disused

(a.) An airport is ____________ since its closure ten years before when it was used for car-racing.

(b.) They complained that the new law had been ______________ to suppress individual liberties.

(c.) Be careful of this word. It’s often ________________.

(d.) The goods were stored in a _______________ cinema.

Dependent, dependant

(a.) The signing of the contract is ________ on whether you can guarantee delivery of the goods within three months.

(b.) You are entitled to receive a government allowance for each _________ who is living with you.

(c.) This residence document permits you, but no __________, to live and work in this country.

(d.) The empire consisted of the kingdom and all its _____________colonies.

Story, storey

(a.) I live in a flat on the seventh __________.

(b.) I’ll tell you a _________.

(c.) The basic ________ of the novel is rather week but it’s amusing and well-written.

(d.) They’re putting up a new 20-_________ hotel on this site.

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