How to spell evaluation

hear ite·val·u·a·tion/ɪ,vælju'eɪʃʌn/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: The act of determining the value of something.

In a sentence: The teacher will have an evaluation to see how well we are learning.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as evalution or evaluasion.

Same family: evaluate, evaluating, re-evaluate, valuable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Evaluation” comes from French ‘évaluation,’ based on the word ‘value’ plus the Latin-derived suffix ‘-ation.’ It literally developed with the sense of ‘turning something into a value,’ which fits its modern meaning of judging worth or quality.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian?

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