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Nouns can also be identified by the presence of a variety of noun-forming suffixes, which
are used to form nouns from other classes of words. Examples include suffixes like -ion
(with variants -tion and -ation), which form abstract nouns that typically refer to events or
results of processes, as in denunciation, commission, starvation, sedimentation, etc.
Other noun-forming suffixes include -ity, -ment and -ance /-ence, which also form
abstract nouns and are therefore quite common in academic writing.
3. Inflectional morphology is the study of the modification of words to fit into different
grammatical contexts whereas the derivational morphology is the study of the formation
of new words that differ either in syntactic category or in meaning from their bases.
4. Its bound morpheme distinguish come from recognize as different or distinct from what
is contiguous or similar; perceive, make out," from French distinguiss-, stem
of distinguer, or directly from Latin distinguere "to separate between, keep separate, mark
off, distinguish," perhaps literally "separate by pricking," from assimilated form
of dis- "apart" (see dis-) + -stinguere "to prick" (compare extinguish and
Latin instinguere "to incite, impel").