The suffix "-ation" is an extended form of "-ion," typically attached to verbs ending in "-ate." It creates nouns for complex processes and transformations.
Educate → education, create → creation, celebrate → celebration. Adding "-ion" to "-ate" verbs.
Transformation, examination, organization—"-ation" often indicates multi-step processes.
"-ation" words dominate academic writing: interpretation, implementation, evaluation.
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Recognizing the "-ate" → "-ation" pattern helps predict noun forms from verbs systematically.
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