Question

Form a noun by modifying the verb: appear
a. Appearancy
b. Appearation
c. Appearence
d. Appearance

Answer 1

Hint: Appear means to come in sight. Only one of the words in the given options exists in the english language. The rest three are incorrect.

Complete answer:
To convert a verb into a noun form, a suffix is added to it. The suffix is either -ance or -ence. Here, the suffix that would be added to form a noun is -ance, which would make the noun form of appear to be, appear + -ance, i.e. appearance. Hence, option d is the correct answer. The words given in option a, appearency, option b, appearation, option c, appearence (wrong spelling), are all incorrect. No such words exist in the english language. Hence, option a, b,c, are all invalid.

Note: Distinguishing between the wrong and right spellings is important, otherwise it can create confusion between a right and wrong spelling. Don’t get confused between appearance and appearance. While, there is only a difference of letter an ‘a’ and ‘e’ in the right and wrong spelling, but the one with ‘e’ in the place of ‘a’ is meaningless.