Several endings sound like “shun”. The most common is -tion: station, action, invention. Use it when the root word ends in t or te: invent, invention; educate, education.
Use -sion when the root ends in d, de or se, or for words like television and explosion: explode, explosion; divide, division.
Use -cian for people's jobs when the root ends in c or cs: music, musician; electric, electrician; magic, magician.
Worked example
Spell the job of someone who works with music.
- Music ends in c.
- Jobs from words ending in c use -cian.
Answer:musician
Key words
- ending
- the last letters of a word
- -cian
- the ending for people's jobs from words ending in c
- root word
- the word an ending is added to
Practise this
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Common Core-referenced: L.4.2d