What"s the Difference Between a "Base" and a "Bass"?
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Answers to practice exercises: base and bass.
(a) "Each day I found some time to walk to the pond where people went to catch sun perch and striped bass."
(Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Random House, 1969)
(b) "There was a tall stepladder set against one wall. There was a bucket at the base of it, filled with dirty water and with a brush floating on top."
(Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird. Random House, 1979)
(c) "The same wooden kitchen table of her childhood, strong as the base of an old square piano, stood bare in the middle of the wooden floor."
(Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter, 1972)
(d) "We are stunned when we see those whom we esteem enslaved by the vulgar, the frivolous, or the base."
(Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince, 1973)
Glossary of Usage: Index of Commonly Confused Words
200 Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs
Answers to practice exercises: base and bass.
(a) "Each day I found some time to walk to the pond where people went to catch sun perch and striped bass."
(Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Random House, 1969)
(b) "There was a tall stepladder set against one wall. There was a bucket at the base of it, filled with dirty water and with a brush floating on top."
(Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird. Random House, 1979)
(c) "The same wooden kitchen table of her childhood, strong as the base of an old square piano, stood bare in the middle of the wooden floor."
(Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter, 1972)
(d) "We are stunned when we see those whom we esteem enslaved by the vulgar, the frivolous, or the base."
(Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince, 1973)
Glossary of Usage: Index of Commonly Confused Words
200 Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs
