How to spell statement

hear itstate·ment/'steɪtmənt/nounRules and real life

What it means: A clear spoken or written announcement.

In a sentence: The teacher made an important statement about the school trip.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as statment or statemant.

Same family: state, statements, stated, stating, declaration. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Statement” comes from the verb “state,” which traces back to Latin “stare,” meaning “to stand.” Over time it came to mean something that “stands” as an official expression, and in computing it now refers to a single instruction that stands as a basic unit in a program.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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