Choose the option that contains the homonym of the highlighted word in the given sentence. Please make sure to write your full ho…

Question

Choose the option that contains the homonym of the highlighted word in the given sentence. Please make sure to write your full home address, including the apartment number and zip code, on the top of the application form.

1. A. After living in the city for ten years, Sarah had to notify the post office that her permanent address was changing to a rural farmhouse.
2. B. The delivery driver called me because he was having trouble finding my address on the GPS due to the new construction in the neighborhood.
3. C. Millions of people tuned in to watch the president’s televised address regarding the new economic policies. (Correct answer)
4. D. The celebrity requested that her residential address be kept private and removed from all public search directories for security reasons.

Correct Answer

Option C — Millions of people tuned in to watch the president’s televised address regarding the new economic policies.

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is the sentence about the president's televised address.

Key Points

• In the prompt, address is the noun meaning a postal location — the place where someone lives or where post is delivered.
• A homonym reuses the same spelling with a different meaning, so the answer must shift that sense.
• Options A, B and D all keep the postal sense — a permanent address, an address on a GPS, a residential address — so none is a homonym; they merely repeat the original use.
• The televised address means a formal speech, an entirely different sense, and is therefore the homonym.

Additional Information

• Address also functions as a verb with further senses: to speak to someone, to write a destination on an envelope, and to deal with a problem ("address the issue").
• Distinguish the three terms: homonyms share spelling and sound with different meanings; homophones sound alike but are spelt differently (*their/there*); homographs share spelling but may differ in sound (*lead* the metal, *lead* to guide).
• The technique is elimination — discard every option preserving the original context, and the remaining shift is the answer.
• Other common homonyms: bank, bat, spring, match, current, right, fair, kind, well, mine.