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Seat vs. Sit
Seat
/siːt/Examples:
Unless everybody is seated, all spectators will be dismissed!Seats "on 'change" sold for two thousand dollars each.Deliberately seating himself upon it, he answered, "Just so."
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This word has no antonymsSit
/sɪt/Examples:
The cat likes to sit by the window.Winston sat at the table and opened his diary.Lady Clarke was sitting in a big armchair near the window.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Both words involve occupying a place, but involve different actions.
- Seat usually refers to the object you sit on or a place designated for sitting.
- Sit describes the action you perform when you lower your body onto a seat.
- Remember, you take a seat or find a seat, but you sit down.
- Think of seat as the destination and sit as the action to reach it.
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