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-ance and -ence are both suffixes that are in the past participle. So they are used on words refering to the past.

Not true! "ed" and "en" are past participle endings The suffixes "ance" and "ence" turn words into nouns that refer to the act of or state of being or the quality of being for a person, place, or thing. For example:

brilliance= state of being brilliant or quality of light, amount of shining

assurance= the act of assuring someone

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Whether a noun ends in -ance or -ence is determined by its Latin root. Words derived from Latin verbs having -are in the infinitive take -ance, otherwise -ence.

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