Take a spoonful in your hand and roll it into a ball. Place it on a table. Keep it in your hand. The matter rolls up into a solid, but when placed upon the table it forms into a liquid again. Starch is a solid.
Water is a liquid.
The water and starch are a suspension known as a colliod. A colliod is a material that consists of one substance suspended within one another. The suspended material is comprised of particles so small that they don't sink to the bottom of the second substance. Together, the two materials display properties unlike those of their separate components. Matter exists in three states solids, liquids, and gases.