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Homophones Worksheet 3 
Scuba Kids!

Part One: Choose the correct word.

1. Since the weather / whether was clear, my cousin and I went to the ocean.
2. We decided to board / bored a ship that was headed to deep waters.
3. We brought all our diving gear onto the boat and set sail / sale for adventure.
4. The captain steered us into a large waive / wave and I almost fell off the boat.		
5. We crossed the straight / strait off the port and headed for the open sea.
6. The old wooden peer / pier from which we departed faded into a speck on the horizon.
7. Our Captain used to be a colonel / kernel in the navy.
8. He was discharged for hornswoggling, so now he is no longer a naval / navel man. 
9. My cousin still said, "Aye aye / Eye eye / I I , Captain!" every time the man spoke to us. 
10. After the anchor was throne / thrown into the water, my cousin and I put on our diving gear.
11. We both said, "Serf's / Surf's up!" at the same time and jumped into the ocean.
12. Our gear became a lot lighter and easier to bare / bear once we got in the water.
13. The waters were peaceful and we began our descent / dissent to the seafloor. 
14. As we passed / past a coral reef, we saw a tiger shark. 
15. My first thought was that we should flea / flee but there was no going back.
16. Our air hoses would get tangled in the reef, so we had to keep moving foreword / forward.
17. The tiger shark swam by us and we were happy to have missed / mist him.
18. "Wow, I hope we don't run into a wail / wale / whale next," said my cousin.
19. Of course the next thing we saw was the tail / tale of a very large creature.
20. My cousin and I both guessed / guest at what it was, but we had no idea.
21. When we got closer, we saw that it was a manta raise / rays / ray's / raze tail.
22. The manta swam threw / through the coral reef when we got closer.
23. Then my cousin tried to warn / worn me that we needed to get back to the surface.
24.  "We're going to run out of air / err / heir ," he said.
25.  "I'll never run out of errors," I said jokingly, "so I hope you know which / witch way to go."

Part Two: Write two sentences for each of the word pairs. Correctly use each word in a sentence.

A. you're / your 
B. brake / break
C. allowed / aloud