My guess is that words ending in -tion originally came from French. I believe that most words ending in -ment are also nouns.
Elizabeth Clark
> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:36:16 +0000
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> I teach middle school. One of the teachers in my district (not my building) said that all words that end in -tion are nouns. I never heard that before, but I thought of all the words I could that end in -tion. I think he might be right.
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> Then I thought maybe all words that end in just -ion are nouns. Am I right? Maybe this information will help my students, but I don't want to tell them something wrong.
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> If all words that end is -ion are nouns, can someone tell me why? Is there some history about those words?
> Thanks!
> Jan
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