In times past, formalists or early grammarians described word classes or parts of speech with regard to forms. Considering these somewhat inadequate generalisations, nouns are said to end in -ion (correction), verbs in -ise/ize (penalise), adjectives in -ive (instructive) and adverbs in -ly (gently)
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