Grammar, Usage, and Style Guide: SparkNotes Ultimate Style: Altar vs. Alter

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altar: table (n.)

• The priest laid the cloth on the altar.

alter: to change (v.)

• The tailor down the street alters Father Quinn’s cassocks for free.

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