Kinds of abstract words: processes
Abstract words which are indispensable for all kinds of academic thought are words which name processes.
When we are children, we are taught History through stories - King Alfred burning the cakes or Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.
Grown-up History is about historical processes, such as industrialisation, slavery, revolution.
Children's Geography is about different places in the world and how people live in climates different from our own.
Grown-up Geography is about geographical processes, such as glaciation, climate change, the water cycle.
The words for processes are usually (but not always) formed by adding an ending to a simpler word.
| industry | + | al | + | is(e) | + | ation | = | industrialisation |
| slave | + | ry | = | slavery |
