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- Nominalizing Verbs
- By taking suffixes
- By Conversion
A nominal is a noun. Nominalization is the process of forming nouns from other parts of speech. The other parts of speech from which nouns could be formed are verbs and adjectives.
1. Nominalizing Verbs:
Verbs become nouns in a number of ways.
(a) By taking suffixes such as the following:
-or/-er | -tion/-ation | -age |
-ant | -ment | -ice |
-ee | -al | -ance |
Examples:
endow – endowment
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