Question

Select the noun form of the following:
assist
A)assistity
B)assistness
C)assistence
D)assistance

Answer 1

Hint: Assist is a verb that means to help someone or to partake in someone else’s work.

Complete step-by-step answer:

By the Hint given to us, we know that assist is a verb that means to help someone or to partake in someone else's work. The noun form of assist must mean someone who assists. A verb is changed to a noun by adding an appropriate suffix. Thus, in order to find the correct noun form of assist, we must find the word starting with ‘assist’ and having a suitable suffix to it.
Assistity is an invalid word, that is, it has no meaning and belongs to no word category. Hence, the option ‘a’ is not the correct answer.
Assistness is an invalid word, that is, it has no meaning and belongs to no word category. Hence, option ‘b’ is not the correct answer.
Assistence if an invalid word, that is, it has no meaning and belongs to know word category. Hence, option ‘c’ is not the correct answer.
Assistance is a valid word in the English language. It is a noun that means someone who assists. We observe that it matches the description that we had inferred for the noun form of assist. Hence, we can conclude that option ‘d’ is the correct answer.

Note: It is to be noted that assistant is an incorrect spelling of assistance.