Does anyone know if the words 'realizing' and 'evaluating' exist? And if not, why?

Question

I couldn't find them in the dictionary and my textbook hints that they don't.

Answer 1

They exist. You need a better dictionary.

Answer 2

What textbook are you reading? Not all grammatical forms of a word are listed in a dictionary. I believe the words exist. Example: I will be reading and evaluating your proposals this weekend.
Realizing that her money was missing from her purse, she began searching for her credit cards.

Answer 3

If you live in Australia words that are spelt with an ending of -ize in other parts of the world are spelt with an -ise here. This is particularly frustrating to bad spellers that need to rely on Microsoft spellcheckers as it will always provide the Americanised version of the spelling. When the older generation of Australia (over 45 now) dies out the language as we know it will have completely disappeared and been replaced by pidgin-American. This new universal language will reflect the street slang of rap drivel, the illiteracy of teenagers today, the idol worshipping of mediocre sporting identities, the misuse by both TV and Hollywood of the spoken word, the poetic licence of the advertising world and the sincerity of our political spin doctors.

I'm only glad I'll be pushing up daisies when it happens!!!

Answer 4

Of course they exist. Try looking up the root words in the dictionary -- realize and evaluate -- and then see if they show the variants with the suffixes.

Answer 5

Yes, the words exist, they are forms (participle?) of the verbs realize and evaluate, respectively. I don't know what textbook it is that "hints they don't exist" but I'd be suspicious of anything the textbook was trying to teach you.

Answer 6

Realize is the root word for realizing
Evaluate is the root word for evaluating.

-ing is a "suffix"

Main Entry: 1-ing
Pronunciation: i[ng] also E[ng]; in some dialects and in other dialects informally in, &n also En; after certain consonants &n, &m, &[ng]
Function: noun suffix
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English -ung, -ing, suffix forming nouns from verbs; akin to Old High German -ung, suffix forming nouns from verbs
1 : action or process : instance of an action or process
2 a : product or result of an action or process -- often in plural b : something used in an action or process
3 : action or process connected with (a specified thing)
4 : something connected with, consisting of, or used in making (a specified thing)
5 : something related to (a specified concept)

Answer 7

I am realizing that your question is flawed. After evaluating your question, I decided it was wrong.

Don't my sentences make sense? realizing and evaluating are gerunds for realize and evaluate. Aren't these words in your dictionary? If not, get a new dictionary.

Answer 8

hmm if you couldnt find them anywhere how did you even come across such words?

well i know for sure both exist. even in dictionaries for kids they do have these two words.

maybe for realizing, your dictionary just put realise(british usage) and not realize(american usage). anyway they have the same meaning just that they are spelled differently.

and even if they do not exist, there is no reason to that. nobody has fixed the word to something yet, that's all.

congrats on you learning two new words today!

Answer 9

They are words but you can't find them in the dictionary because -ing morpheme is added to them. You can find the meanings of these words under the headings "realize" and "evaluate". They are originally verbs and they become nouns by the adding of the -ing.

Answer 10

Dictionaries usually only lists the basic form of the word, not the "-ing form" or the past tense. "He's realizing" is a form of the verb "To realize".
Look realize and evaluate. (Or the noun forms realization and evaluation)