1. To bow to bend the head or body. 2. wind air in motion. 3. to tear to pull apart by force. 4. to desert - to go away from a person or place. 5. row a number of persons or things in a line.
V. a. Classify the following italicized homonyms. Use Professor A. I. Smirnitsky's classification system.
1. a) He should give the ball in your honour as the bride, b) The boy was playing with a ball. 2. a) He wished he could explain about his left ear, b) He left the sentence unfinished. 3. a) I wish you could stop lying. b) The yellow mouse was still dead, lying as it had fallen in the crystal clear liquid. 4. a) This time, he turned on the light, b) He wore $300 suits with light ties and he was a man you would instinctively trust anywhere.
5. a) When he's at the door of her room, he sends the page ahead, b) Open your books at page 20.
6. a) Crockett's voice rose for the first time. b) I'll send you roses, one rose for each year of your life. 7. a) He was bound to keep the peace for six months, b) You should bound your desires by reason. 8. a) The pain was almost more than he could bear. b) Catch the bear before you sell his skin. 9. a) To can means to put up in airtight tins or jars for preservation, b) A man can die but once.