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Future332 Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

A permit and to permit

What do you call the words that are spelled the same but due to their different stresses they're different word forms?

A permit and to permit is one example.

Thanks in advance.

  

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These are homographs - the word refers to 'same' and 'writing' as they are written the same way.

  • These are homographs - the word refers to 'same' and 'writing' as they are written the same way.
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These are homographs - the word refers to 'same' and 'writing' as they are written the same way.

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