Grammar sucks sometimes

I have randomly been thinking about a lot of different words so I am going to make a list of sentences that help prove why English is so hard to learn, even for native speakers.



The lead actor's footsteps were like lead as I led him off the stage.

The tear in the dress made me tear up and because it was torn she teared up as well.

He was close to the clothes and asked me to close the door, then bring him the cloths.

We're wondering where you were and did you wear that dress.  

I told him to read the paper so he read it and corrected it with red pen.

The costumer was a great customer.

They're going to their house over there.

You're going to go to your room.

Those pants look loose.  Did you lose weight?

Are those two going to the store too?

Do you have an apple that we could halve for them to share?

John was too sore to get on the glider and soar.

Our plan is in an hour.

The price of that fare just doesn't seem fair to me.

The cough was tough but he got through the rough patch because his doctor was thorough.

I threw the ball through the window.

Due to the dew on the grass we can't finish our to do list.

I had to raze the old building in order to raise a new one on that plot.

The bass in the music seemed to attract a lot of bass to our fishing base.

We had to wind the ropes tighter because of the wind that was coming.

The bow on her dress made it hard for her to bow.    

John at his cereal as he read the serial in the newspaper.

She had to let her ankle heal after a broken heel caused a sprain.

The steel sculpture proved almost impossible to steal.

I find it very hard to accept anything except the truth.


That's just 25 examples.  There are so many more.

feet/feat
peek/peak
pray/prey
way/whey
or/oar
for/fore/four
lightning/lightening
way/weigh
wait/weight


The list goes on and on.  And let's not forget that some of these words are homographs and some are homophones making pretty much all of them homonyms depending on who you ask.

And let's not forget:

I before E except after C or in sounding like "A" in neighbor and weigh unless it's weird or science.  

There are rules, there are exceptions to the rules and then there are exceptions to the exceptions to the rules.  It's really no wonder it's so hard to learn.