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It can be used as a suffix to make the word syllabication.
Ation is not a prefix; it is a suffix. Some words with this suffix are specialization, aggravation, and alternation.
The word "attention" can be syllabicated as at-ten-tion. It has three syllables, with the first syllable "at," the second syllable "ten," and the third syllable "tion."
Con-tri-bu-tion. It's a four-syllable word. The "tion" is one syllable.
"Orientation" has the suffix -tion and no prefix.
The stressed syllable is the second syllable - pre / dic / tion.
ob-jec-tion
2. Ac-tion
The second syllable - ven - is stressed.
The first syllable is "dic". The second syllable is "tion". The third syllable is "ar". There are four syllables in total in the word dictionary: dic-tion-ar-y.
Suffix=tion
The stressed syllable in the word "ambition" is the second syllable, pronounced as "am-BI-tion".
pers-per-a-tion