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Brannan: A Writer's Workshop
A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays
Bob Brannan, Johnson County Community College
Spelling and Sound-Alike Words

Glossary

sound-alike words  two or more words with the same sound but different spelling and meaning. Ex.: clothes/cloths.
syllable  a unit of sound; what a word is divided into in its dictionary entry








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