I always forget when I should use '-ence' and when I should use another one.
We celebrate Independence day.
There have been a lot of improvement.
He need to take the placement test.
My correspondent did not pick up his phone.
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I always forget when I should use '-ence' and when I should use another one.
We celebrate Independence day.
There have been a lot of improvement.
He need to take the placement test.
My correspondent did not pick up his phone.
Yes, suffix is sucks :fiuhhh:
As far as I remember,
-ence is usually for noun (see: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/-ence)
-ent is usually [originally] for adjectives, but later on also appear in nouns (see: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/-ent)
It is hard to differentiate those two since we have to see its Latin origin first.
From your example:
Independence > NounQuote:
Originally Posted by kandalf
Correspondent > The origin of this word is as an adjective (see: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/correspondent)
meanwhile, Improvement and Placement are words with suffix -ment