Processes and Results of Actions
Some suffixes are attached to action roots to indicate the process or the result of the action. See if you can find such words in the following memo. Circle the words with those suffixes.
Memorandum
TO: Product Development Team Members
FROM: Executive Staff
SUBJECT: Completion of SoftSense
DATE: August 2, 200X
We are pleased to make the announcement that the
development of our new software program, SoftSense, is
complete. We are very proud of this achievement;
everyone involved should share in our sense of
accomplishment. The solutions to the problems we met
were not always easy, but they were always found. Each
person's contribution to the effort was important; every
assignment was taken seriously. In recognition of this
milestone, a bonus will be added to each team member's
next paycheck. Congratulations to all.
Did you circle announcement, development, achievement, accomplishment, solutions, contribution, assignment, recognition, and congratulations? -ment
The ending -ment indicates the result of an act or a process. When, for example, the suffix -ment is added to the action root achieve, we have the word achievement, which names the result of achieving. The verb govern is changed to the name of a process by adding the suffix -ment, giving us government.In the preceding memo, the terms announcement, development, achievement, accomplishment, and assignment use the -ment suffix. An announcement is the result of announcing; a development is the process or result of developing; an accomplishment is what results from accomplishing something. The result of assigning a task to someone (or assigning an item to a category) is an assignment. -ion
The ending -tion (and its other forms, such as -tion, -sion, -ition, and -ation,), like -ment, indicates the result of an act or a process. The suffix -ation added to the action root compute gives us computation. Likewise, when this suffix is added to contribute, we have the result of contributing: a contribution.Some roots are changed before the suffix is added. For example, the word conversion, meaning the "result or process of converting something," drops the t from convert and then adds the suffix -sion. In the memo example, the word solution is the outcome of changing the action root solv- by dropping the v and then adding the suffix -ution.Two other words in the memo example use the -ion ending: congratulations (the result of congratulating), and recognition (the result of recognizing).
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