[Music]
hello I’m Emma from mmm English in this
lesson I’ll be talking about some
confusing English words words that sound
exactly the same but are spelled
differently and they have different
meanings different uses words like bear
and bear roar and roar these words are
called hominin so quite a few of you
have been asking me to create a lesson
about these types of words about hominid
to help you to understand the difference
between these words and how to use them
these pairs of words or groups of words
have different meanings and often they
are completely different types of words
one’s a noun one’s an adjective one’s a
verb one’s an adverb so usually the
context will help you to understand
which word is the right one to you but
you need to remember the spelling which
is the tricky part
so it’s especially important when you’re
writing when you’re speaking it doesn’t
matter so much because they sound
exactly the same right but as soon as
you write it down that’s where you’ll
run into trouble especially if you’re
writing an exam you’re writing an
important email or an essay that you
need to submit so in this lesson you’ll
learn some new words hopefully but more
importantly you’ll learn about some
pairs of words or groups of words where
you need to be extra careful about your
spelling and your use please note that
you’ll be hearing these words in my
Australian accent the pronunciation of
some of these words can be slightly
different depending on where you are
hearing them if it’s American
English or British English in England or
in Australia New Zealand Canada South
Africa or anywhere else where English is
spoken as always I have lovingly
prepared subtitles for you if you can’t
see them now you just need to turn them
on press the little button down there
that has two scenes on it okay
now we’re ready to get started let’s
start with raw and raw now both of these
words have feet or valve sound the same
sound that you’ll hear in words like
door and saw raw now there are a few
different uses for this word but you’ll
most commonly hear it used as an
adjective particularly describing food
so when you’re talking about food raw
means that something is not cooked I
like my steak raw raw vegetable are good
for you and sushi is often made from raw
fish it can also mean that something is
natural and unprocessed so for example
the table is made from raw timber now
raw can be a noun or a verb for a very
loud noise a person or a crowd of people
can roar in anger or excitement if you
think of a football stadium that is full
of football fans and they are all
roaring when their team’s score the goal
is very loud
you might hear the expression that
someone’s roaring with laughter which
means they’re laughing really loudly
roar is also the noun that we give to
the sound that a lion makes a lion
org now there are more English hominin
pairs that use this same vowel sound
it’s quite a common one actually words
like your and your store and saw poor
and poor and poor floor and floor Shaw
and sure so you must be careful about
how you use these words okay let’s move
on bear and bear now both of these words
use the air diss songs down the same
sound that you’ll hear in words like air
and care and compare now there is an
adjective that describes when there is
nothing covering something else there
wall for example have no pictures on
them bare land have has no trees on it
their skin is skin without any clothing
on a bear is of course an animal a noun
a teddy bear or a koala bear or panda
bear again there are more English
hominin pairs that use this same vowel
sounds such as stare and stare bear and
pair flash and flair where and where
there there and there
these ones always used to drive me crazy
at school I was always confusing there
and there they all use the same
diphthong sound again air
while these words all sound exactly the
same they have very different meanings
and different uses there is commonly
used as an adverb to give more
information about where something is or
was or will be I’ll meet you there after
school so there is a place it’s also
used as a pronoun there’s someone behind
you have someone waiting for you outside
there is the possessive form of they and
it’s always followed by a noun
their car their company their bad luck
note that it can also be the possessive
form of a single person if you don’t
know if it’s a male or female person so
for example someone left their jacket
behind there is the contracted form of
they our words are often contracted to
make them easier to say and quicker to
say so they are become they’re
pronounced in exactly the same way
they’re they’re hungry they’re moving to
Sydney here and here now
first of these words use the ear
dysfunction ear the same sound that you
hear in words like ear and beer and a
year now here is mainly used as an
adverb wait here I’ll be back in five
minutes but it can also be used as an
interjection like here hold this here is
a verb of course you know this one I
can’t hear what he’s saying can you hear
that
again because these two words have
different types of words they’ll be used
quite differently in sentences did you
hear that announcement they told us to
wait here
another hominin pair that uses the same
sound is deer and deer so deer has quite
a few different uses as an adjective and
deer is a noun also the name of an
animal which and which both pronounced
in exactly the same way which which is a
determiner or a pronoun which one do you
want which design do you prefer which
cars the fastest which of you wants to
go first
a which is a woman in stories a woman
who has magical powers she was accused
of being a witch because she always wore
black again that both of these words are
used quite differently in English
sentences because they’re different
types of words in fact they can even be
used in the same sentence which which
scares you the most
flour and flour so the pronunciation
here we have a diphthong sound and the
schwa sound ow
our flour both of these words are nouns
and they’re pronounced in exactly the
same way but they’re quite different
even though they’re both nouns they’re
quite different one is a countable noun
flour so if you hear this noun in a
plural form flowers you’ll know that the
speaker is talking
about flowers flower is uncountable
because it’s a powder and generally
powders are uncountable in English
because one is countable and the other
is uncountable these two words are used
quite differently in English sentences
to learn more about the different ways
that countable and uncountable nouns are
used in English sentences
check out this lesson up here I’ve
created a whole new lesson about
uncountable nouns for you
through-and-through now both of these
words use the ooh vowel sound the same
sound that you hear in words like do and
clue watch out for the unvoiced th sound
here it’s a little tricky when it’s next
to the R make sure that your tongue is
coming through your teeth when you
pronounce that sound through through is
a verb the past tense form of throw he
threw the ball over the fence by
accident through is used in a few
different ways for example as a
preposition push your tongue through
your teeth to make this sound
Saru as an adverb there’s water coming
through the ceiling and as an adjective
I’ll call you when the day is through
I’m really busy right now so there
through means done or finished
assistance and assistance
now assistance is a noun it’s help or
support that’s given to someone it’s an
uncountable noun so it can’t be clue
there’s only one form assistant can I
have your assistance lifting this box
into my car I asked her for some
assistance because I couldn’t find my
seat he needed financial assistance to
start his business now assistance is
also a noun but it’s a plural noun the
singular form is assistant when there is
only one its assistant but when the S is
added the t softens and most of the time
you can’t even hear it an assistant is
someone whose job it is to help someone
else a shop assistant is someone who
works in a shop and helps customers a
personal assistant is a person who helps
someone else to do their job and again
we can use these words in the same
sentence the shop assistant will give
you assistance if you need it as always
I’ve made a worksheet for you so that
you can practice using these different
word together in sentences you can
download it right here now these words
are so similar that it’s easy to make
mistakes even for native English
speakers every native English speaker
who is watching this video or who’s not
has confused these words at some point
in their lives it’s nothing to be
ashamed of these mistakes are silly
little mistakes that often you don’t
mean to make but it happened it’s just
frustrating that sometimes it does
happen
in an important email or when you’ve
just submitted your assignment and
realize you’ve made a mistake before I
finish up this lesson I want to tell you
about an awesome tool that I use to help
make fewer mistakes with hominin and I
always recommend it to my students
because it’s so good it’s also really
good with spelling and grammar it’s
going to be your secret weapon to make
sure that you don’t make these mistakes
again it’s in PI secret weapon sometimes
when I’m trying to write an email really
quickly or I’m writing YouTube comments
or Facebook comments or I’m writing a
blog post you know sometimes I make
these mistakes especially if I’m typing
really quickly and that’s life it
happens but now I’ve installed the
grammarly app onto my browser grammerly
tells you when you’ve accidentally made
one of these mistakes and it tells you
why you’ve made that mistake if you’re
not sure now grammarly tells you when
you’ve made one of these mistakes
accidentally it will help you to check
your spelling and tell you when you’ve
made an error
oops that is exactly why I use bramley
just to make sure I can use it to help
me while I’m writing emails blog posts
and essays to make sure that I know when
I’ve made these mistakes and I can feel
confident when I’m writing that I
haven’t made these mistakes the great
news is this app is absolutely free
just click this link up here I’ve made a
blog post to help you understand why
this tool is so useful and a video on
how to use it
really important tool for English
students because if you don’t have a
teacher who’s sitting next to you
telling you why you’re making these
mistakes grammarly is the next best
thing anyway this is the perfect tool to
help you make fewer mistakes in English
with hominem or with English grammar
well I hope that this lesson has been
helpful for you if you would like to
keep practicing with me
check out these lessons right here if
you haven’t subscribed yet to my channel
come and join us
Christmas you get a new lesson every
week here on the English YouTube channel
so that you can keep practicing and
improving your English click the red
button just down there bye for now
hello I’m Emma from mmm English in this
lesson I’ll be talking about some
confusing English words words that sound
exactly the same but are spelled
differently and they have different
meanings different uses words like bear
and bear roar and roar these words are
called hominin so quite a few of you
have been asking me to create a lesson
about these types of words about hominid
to help you to understand the difference
between these words and how to use them
these pairs of words or groups of words
have different meanings and often they
are completely different types of words
one’s a noun one’s an adjective one’s a
verb one’s an adverb so usually the
context will help you to understand
which word is the right one to you but
you need to remember the spelling which
is the tricky part
so it’s especially important when you’re
writing when you’re speaking it doesn’t
matter so much because they sound
exactly the same right but as soon as
you write it down that’s where you’ll
run into trouble especially if you’re
writing an exam you’re writing an
important email or an essay that you
need to submit so in this lesson you’ll
learn some new words hopefully but more
importantly you’ll learn about some
pairs of words or groups of words where
you need to be extra careful about your
spelling and your use please note that
you’ll be hearing these words in my
Australian accent the pronunciation of
some of these words can be slightly
different depending on where you are
hearing them if it’s American
English or British English in England or
in Australia New Zealand Canada South
Africa or anywhere else where English is
spoken as always I have lovingly
prepared subtitles for you if you can’t
see them now you just need to turn them
on press the little button down there
that has two scenes on it okay
now we’re ready to get started let’s
start with raw and raw now both of these
words have feet or valve sound the same
sound that you’ll hear in words like
door and saw raw now there are a few
different uses for this word but you’ll
most commonly hear it used as an
adjective particularly describing food
so when you’re talking about food raw
means that something is not cooked I
like my steak raw raw vegetable are good
for you and sushi is often made from raw
fish it can also mean that something is
natural and unprocessed so for example
the table is made from raw timber now
raw can be a noun or a verb for a very
loud noise a person or a crowd of people
can roar in anger or excitement if you
think of a football stadium that is full
of football fans and they are all
roaring when their team’s score the goal
is very loud
you might hear the expression that
someone’s roaring with laughter which
means they’re laughing really loudly
roar is also the noun that we give to
the sound that a lion makes a lion
org now there are more English hominin
pairs that use this same vowel sound
it’s quite a common one actually words
like your and your store and saw poor
and poor and poor floor and floor Shaw
and sure so you must be careful about
how you use these words okay let’s move
on bear and bear now both of these words
use the air diss songs down the same
sound that you’ll hear in words like air
and care and compare now there is an
adjective that describes when there is
nothing covering something else there
wall for example have no pictures on
them bare land have has no trees on it
their skin is skin without any clothing
on a bear is of course an animal a noun
a teddy bear or a koala bear or panda
bear again there are more English
hominin pairs that use this same vowel
sounds such as stare and stare bear and
pair flash and flair where and where
there there and there
these ones always used to drive me crazy
at school I was always confusing there
and there they all use the same
diphthong sound again air
while these words all sound exactly the
same they have very different meanings
and different uses there is commonly
used as an adverb to give more
information about where something is or
was or will be I’ll meet you there after
school so there is a place it’s also
used as a pronoun there’s someone behind
you have someone waiting for you outside
there is the possessive form of they and
it’s always followed by a noun
their car their company their bad luck
note that it can also be the possessive
form of a single person if you don’t
know if it’s a male or female person so
for example someone left their jacket
behind there is the contracted form of
they our words are often contracted to
make them easier to say and quicker to
say so they are become they’re
pronounced in exactly the same way
they’re they’re hungry they’re moving to
Sydney here and here now
first of these words use the ear
dysfunction ear the same sound that you
hear in words like ear and beer and a
year now here is mainly used as an
adverb wait here I’ll be back in five
minutes but it can also be used as an
interjection like here hold this here is
a verb of course you know this one I
can’t hear what he’s saying can you hear
that
again because these two words have
different types of words they’ll be used
quite differently in sentences did you
hear that announcement they told us to
wait here
another hominin pair that uses the same
sound is deer and deer so deer has quite
a few different uses as an adjective and
deer is a noun also the name of an
animal which and which both pronounced
in exactly the same way which which is a
determiner or a pronoun which one do you
want which design do you prefer which
cars the fastest which of you wants to
go first
a which is a woman in stories a woman
who has magical powers she was accused
of being a witch because she always wore
black again that both of these words are
used quite differently in English
sentences because they’re different
types of words in fact they can even be
used in the same sentence which which
scares you the most
flour and flour so the pronunciation
here we have a diphthong sound and the
schwa sound ow
our flour both of these words are nouns
and they’re pronounced in exactly the
same way but they’re quite different
even though they’re both nouns they’re
quite different one is a countable noun
flour so if you hear this noun in a
plural form flowers you’ll know that the
speaker is talking
about flowers flower is uncountable
because it’s a powder and generally
powders are uncountable in English
because one is countable and the other
is uncountable these two words are used
quite differently in English sentences
to learn more about the different ways
that countable and uncountable nouns are
used in English sentences
check out this lesson up here I’ve
created a whole new lesson about
uncountable nouns for you
through-and-through now both of these
words use the ooh vowel sound the same
sound that you hear in words like do and
clue watch out for the unvoiced th sound
here it’s a little tricky when it’s next
to the R make sure that your tongue is
coming through your teeth when you
pronounce that sound through through is
a verb the past tense form of throw he
threw the ball over the fence by
accident through is used in a few
different ways for example as a
preposition push your tongue through
your teeth to make this sound
Saru as an adverb there’s water coming
through the ceiling and as an adjective
I’ll call you when the day is through
I’m really busy right now so there
through means done or finished
assistance and assistance
now assistance is a noun it’s help or
support that’s given to someone it’s an
uncountable noun so it can’t be clue
there’s only one form assistant can I
have your assistance lifting this box
into my car I asked her for some
assistance because I couldn’t find my
seat he needed financial assistance to
start his business now assistance is
also a noun but it’s a plural noun the
singular form is assistant when there is
only one its assistant but when the S is
added the t softens and most of the time
you can’t even hear it an assistant is
someone whose job it is to help someone
else a shop assistant is someone who
works in a shop and helps customers a
personal assistant is a person who helps
someone else to do their job and again
we can use these words in the same
sentence the shop assistant will give
you assistance if you need it as always
I’ve made a worksheet for you so that
you can practice using these different
word together in sentences you can
download it right here now these words
are so similar that it’s easy to make
mistakes even for native English
speakers every native English speaker
who is watching this video or who’s not
has confused these words at some point
in their lives it’s nothing to be
ashamed of these mistakes are silly
little mistakes that often you don’t
mean to make but it happened it’s just
frustrating that sometimes it does
happen
in an important email or when you’ve
just submitted your assignment and
realize you’ve made a mistake before I
finish up this lesson I want to tell you
about an awesome tool that I use to help
make fewer mistakes with hominin and I
always recommend it to my students
because it’s so good it’s also really
good with spelling and grammar it’s
going to be your secret weapon to make
sure that you don’t make these mistakes
again it’s in PI secret weapon sometimes
when I’m trying to write an email really
quickly or I’m writing YouTube comments
or Facebook comments or I’m writing a
blog post you know sometimes I make
these mistakes especially if I’m typing
really quickly and that’s life it
happens but now I’ve installed the
grammarly app onto my browser grammerly
tells you when you’ve accidentally made
one of these mistakes and it tells you
why you’ve made that mistake if you’re
not sure now grammarly tells you when
you’ve made one of these mistakes
accidentally it will help you to check
your spelling and tell you when you’ve
made an error
oops that is exactly why I use bramley
just to make sure I can use it to help
me while I’m writing emails blog posts
and essays to make sure that I know when
I’ve made these mistakes and I can feel
confident when I’m writing that I
haven’t made these mistakes the great
news is this app is absolutely free
just click this link up here I’ve made a
blog post to help you understand why
this tool is so useful and a video on
how to use it
really important tool for English
students because if you don’t have a
teacher who’s sitting next to you
telling you why you’re making these
mistakes grammarly is the next best
thing anyway this is the perfect tool to
help you make fewer mistakes in English
with hominem or with English grammar
well I hope that this lesson has been
helpful for you if you would like to
keep practicing with me
check out these lessons right here if
you haven’t subscribed yet to my channel
come and join us
Christmas you get a new lesson every
week here on the English YouTube channel
so that you can keep practicing and
improving your English click the red
button just down there bye for now
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