What Word When

This collection was produced solely for young students to enhance their knowledge of the complicated English language.   The words underlined have the same pronunciation but different spellings and different meanings (homophones).  

The purpose of this book is to provide students with information that will help them learn new English words and be original and creative in using them to design their personal sentences, paragraphs, essays, stories, reports, etc using underlined words and sentences as examples.   Once given the assignment, they would be forced to research unknown and unfamiliar words in the dictionary and create literature whether it would be humorous, eerie, romantic, weird, rhyming, fiction, truth, an experience, or any combination.  Educational improvement in the use of words would be exceptional.   The challenge would be to be creative using their individual ingenuity and research in their originations. 

It is believed students would actually enjoy their own work while they would be learning the meanings and usage of unfamiliar words.       

This book is intended for grade levels beginning with the second or third grade and advancing upward.   It would be the teachers/instructors responsibility to determine which words would be appropriate for which education level.  

This author did not pursue the “new words section” of the dictionary, nor the areas with groups of prefixes such as half, in, non, over, pre, re, un, well.  There are several hundred of these, and it would have been repetitious to mate them up with additional sentences.

All underlined words were found in Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, but other large unabridged dictionaries such as The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language will also include the underlined words.   If such dictionaries are unavailable in the school, the student would have to visit a public library for research.

Lucy forced the lamb on the lam.

I have lain in that lane before, after a vehicle struck me.

Leora led us to the lead, but it was too heavy to move.

He was on the lee side of the mountain in the lea by the sea.

Let’s issue a levy to place a tax on the levee.

Hey mate, please lock the gate into the loch.

Two awesome ducks discovered a load of ore in the lode.

The lory is being transported by a lorry.

We made a loop around town to check out a loupe at the jewelers.

Searching in the loot she found an old lute.

Logan reeled that luce right up to the boat but it wiggled loose.

It’s no lie that lye will burn your skin.

He could be a liar and a lier.

The leak in the hose will water the leek efficiently.

It feels like our house is beginning to lean because of the lien against it.

Please lay the lei in the lea then we will write a lai about it.  Isn’t English super?

Mabel, if you’re able put the label on the table, but make sure it’s not a labile table.

We cannot create shellac because we lack the necessary lac.

The words lade and laid are both verbs and could be clos