Nominalization — Changing Word Forms
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).
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: