Alter versus Altar
English as a language can be really a headache sometimes. We often see the words that have same spellings with a little difference but their meanings are very much wide apart from each other. In this article we are going to see such two terms namely alter and altar.
In this article we are going to see meaning of both these two terms and also we are going to use them in sentences framing.
Use of terms alter and altar in sentence framing
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Important note
As in the above segment of the article we have seen the meaning of both the term and we also framed sentences using both the terms one thing is indeed very clear in front of us that both term convey different meaning and cannot be used simultaneously. Hence it is important to remember the difference between two and this can be done using a simple trick that is
If we observe carefully term alter has an “e” in it and verb also has an “e” in it in this way we can remember the term alter is always going to be used as verb.
After learning the way to remember the difference lets now proceed to learning the correct pronunciation of these two terms.
Alter is pronounced as ol tuh
Altar is pronounced as awl tuh.
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Summary
To quickly summarize our learning from this article first we learnt the meaning of both terms where alter means to change or modify and altar refers to as a structure used in religion context. We also framed different sentences using both the terms and figured out a trick to remember the difference in the important note section and at last by knowing the correct pronunciation of both the terms.
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