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Nominalization — Changing Word Forms

Converting Adjectives to Nouns

Common suffixes: -ness (happy → happiness, aware → awareness, dark → darkness), -ity (possible → possibility, equal → equality, complex → complexity), -ance/-ence (important → importance, patient → patience), -cy (frequent → frequency, accurate → accuracy), -th (long → length, warm → warmth, strong → strength).

Converting Adjectives to Nouns

Common suffixes: -ness (happy → happiness, aware → awareness, dark → darkness), -ity (possible → possibility, equal → equality, complex → complexity), -ance/-ence (important → importance, patient → patience), -cy (frequent → frequency, accurate → accuracy), -th (long → length, warm → warmth, strong → strength).

Practice

The ___ of the problem was underestimated.

Theof the new law was debated for months.

Put the words in the correct order:

Click words from the bank to place them here

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