Trust me, I’m an English teacher. So, homophones and homographs are two types of homonyms. The best way to explain these words is with examples. Let’s start with Homophones … Homophones are ...

Homophones and homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Homonyms are words that are pronounced and spelt the same way but have different meanings. Like the word, ‘wear’.

In the last example, what gives us the context are the words ‘Mary’s pigsty’. In some cases, you might have noticed that only a thin line separates polysemy, homonyms and homophones.