2017年2月25日 · Words ending in -tion. If the ending is pronounced as in station, then it's spelled -tion. For example: addition; duration; nation; solution; ambition; edition; caution; position. If the noun is related to a word ending in -ate, then the ending will be -ation, e.g. donation (from donate) or vacation (from vacate).

Because the regular suffix for the supine stem / past participle is -t-in Latin, we often see -tion; but compare also miss-ion, fus-ion, cohes-ion, inflex-ion, etc.. The same suffix can also be found with non-supine stems, though less frequently so, like rebellion, legion, etc.

2015年10月11日 · However, I can't think of any counterexamples to my rule when dealing with the actual suffix -tion. Note: I used the example words relation and abstraction rather than reflection because the latter word has alternated with reflexion in the past, giving it …

2020年7月1日 · In English, -tion is a more common termination than -sion, so there is not much pressure within English to replace -tion with -sion: in fact, -tion spellings have expanded compared to Latin in the case of certain words that originally had -xio(n) such as reflexion and connexion.

2020年10月27日 · The suffix tion is pronounced as /ʃən/ (shun) and not /tʃən/ (chun). According to an answer by user Kosmonaut to a question "What rules of English allow the first t in “patient” to make an sh sound?": The reason something pronounced [ʃ] ("sh") would ever get the spelling "ti" is because of palatalization. Basically, the "io" diphthong ...

2015年2月21日 · There is also a red herring in the form of cation, which is of course not a -tion ending at all, but a cat[a]- prefix attached to the root word ion. Most significantly to the point of the OP's original question, none of the a through c words in WS2's list carries the sound zh at the beginning of the final syllable.

2015年11月22日 · If it exists, what is a/the word describing a word ending with "-tion" (e.g. execution, exemption, perdition, definition, proposition, etc.)?

2022年12月12日 · We noticed that before the suffix -tion, the "i" is always a short sound, despite being an open syllable. All the other vowels are mostly pronounced as long sounds, as expected in open syllables. Why is this? Example -ition words: position, competition, tuition, edition; Other -tion words: (ation) station, nation, fixation, isolation (exception ...

2019年3月17日 · Can someone explain the rationale of adding TION to a verb. In other words, when I take a verb such as LIMIT and turn it into a noun I can make it limit, limiting, or limitation. The word Limitation means something a little different than limit or limiting. IS there a rule or explanation about this applies to all or at least most cases?

2017年5月5日 · There are many cases that I have to choose between the -ing form of a verb and the -tion or - age nouns. Like this question: Local waves within the harbor make ..... difficult, if not impossible. 1. anchoring 2. anchorage. Which one is correct? Is this because of grammer, or meaning, or common usage?