Los Angeles Times: A Word, Please: Nominalizations make nouns out of verbs and adjectives, sometimes to ill effect
A Word, Please: Nominalizations make nouns out of verbs and adjectives, sometimes to ill effect
Writers and language geeks inherit a ranking system of sorts: verbs good, adjectives bad, nouns sadly unavoidable. Verbs are action, verve! “I ate the day / Deliberately, that its tang / Might quicken ...
Ars Technica: Parsing a text file and discerning between nouns, adjectives and verbs
There’s nothing new about the conversion of nouns into verbs. What’s unusual is when adjectives — especially compound adjectives — do the same. Future ready? Shoppers talk to SoftBank Corp.'s ...
There are words that convey a meaning, like verbs, nouns or adjectives, and others, like articles or conjunctions that sustain them, providing a structure for the sentence. A few years ago some ...
Before 2006, I never gave much thought to nominalizations — noun forms like “beauty” and “the scheduling” that at heart are really adjectives like “beautiful” or verbs like “to schedule.” I was ...
Adjectives must agree with the noun in gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural). Make most adjectives agree with the nouns by adding 'e', 's' or 'es'. Position of adjectives in ...
"We have to turn the concept of gratitude from a noun into a verb." —Meerabelle Dey I like using more verbs and fewer nouns. It underscores the expression "that the name is not the thing.” Nouns and ...
The New York Times: Forget Nouns. Verbs Are Where the Action Is.