The manager accepted the cashier's _______ for coming late.
- A. expalanation
- B. explaination
- C. explnasion
- D. explanation
Explanation
The correct spelling is explanation, which drops the i of explain, and that dropped letter is exactly what the second option restores wrongly. The other two options transpose letters. Building the word from explain plus ation and then removing the i is the reliable check.
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