Formation of Nouns from Verbs

Formation of Nouns from Verbs :



We form abstract nouns by adding different suffixes.

From Verbs by adding ment

1. agree - agreement
   
2. amuse - amusement
   
3. employ - employment
   
4. excite - excitement
   
5. manage - management
   
6. treat – treatment
   
7. pay - payment
   
8. argue - argument
   
9. develop - development
   
10. entertain - entertainment
    
11. invest - investment
    
12. advertise - advertisement
    
13. achieve - achievement
    
14. enjoy - enjoyment
    
15. govern - government
    
16. announce - announcement
    
17. disappoint - disappointment
    
18. punish – punishment

From Verbs by adding ance

1. abound - abundance
   
2. attend - attendance
   
3. enter - entrance
   
4. guide - guidance
   
5. accept - acceptance
   
6. disturb - disturbance
   
7. ignore – ignorance
   
8. appear - appearance
   
9. endure - endurance
   
10. insure - insurance
    
11. resist – resistance
    
12. perform - performance

From Verbs by adding ence

1. depend - dependence
   
2. differ — difference
   
3. exist – existence
   
4. infer – inference
   
5. interfere – interference
   
6. occur – occurrence
   
7. refer — reference
   
8. reside — residence

From Verbs by adding al

1. approve — approval
   
2. arrive — arrival
   
3. betray — betrayal
   
4. bury - burial
   
5. deny — denial
   
6. dismiss - dismissal
   
7. dispose — disposal
   
8. propose — proposal
   
9. refuse — refusal
   
10. remove – removal
    
11. try — trial
    
12. withdraw — withdrawal

From Verbs by adding sion

1. admit - admission
   
2. compel - compulsion
   
3. decide - decision
   
4. provide - provision
   
5. Mir-reed - succession
   
6. permit - permission
   
7. conclude - conclusion
   
8. extend - extension
   
9. omit - omission
   
10. collide - collision
    
11. divide - division
    
12. explode - explosion
    
13. submit – submission

From Verbs by adding tion

1. act - action
   
2. admire - admiration
   
3. collect - collection
   
4. correct - correction
   
5. describe - description
   
6. decorate - decoration
   
7. prevent - prevention
   
8. elect - election
   
9. translate - translation
   
10. associate — association
    
11. celebrate - celebration
    
12. examine - examination
    
13. distribute - distribution
    
14. construct - construction
    
15. add - addition
    
16. invent - invention
    
17. attract - attraction
    
18. exhibit - exhibition
    
19. declare - declaration
    
20. inspect — inspection
    
21. cultivate – cultivation

From Verbs by adding y

1. assemble - assembly
   
2. discover — discovery
   
3. enquire – enquiry

From Verbs by adding ure

1. depart - departure
   
2. proceed - procedure
   
3. press - pressure
   
4. by adding age
   
5. carry - carriage
   
6. marry - marriage
   
7. pack - package
   
8. post - postage
   
9. waste – wastage

From Verbs by adding t or th

1. complain - complaint
   
2. weigh – weight
   
3. grow - growth
   
4. flatter - flattery
   
5. fail - failure
   
6. pass - passage
   
7. wide - width
   
   There are many such nouns formed this way from verbs. You will come across them.
   
   
   
   

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