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HaythamGhareeb Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Can Oversight be used as a verb?

Hi,

I found this sentence on a site:

"To oversight the performance of PPP schools."

So is this correct? I have never seen this before but then again, I am not a native speaker of English so I want to make sure.

Thanks
  

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" So is this correct? I have never seen this before but then again, I am not a native speaker of English so I want to make sure. Thanks Hi HaythamGhareeb, "Oversight" is a noun which means "failure to see".

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  • " So is this correct?
  • I have never seen this before but then again, I am not a native speaker of English so I want to make sure.
  • Thanks Hi HaythamGhareeb, "Oversight" is a noun which means "failure to see".
  • In some cases, nouns may be used as verbs but in this case, "oversight" can only remain as a noun.
  • You can say: He was appointed to "oversee" the school's opeartion which simply means to take control of, or to manage.
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HaythamGhareebHi,

I found this sentence on a site:

"To oversight the performance of PPP schools."

So is this correct? I have never seen this before but then again, I am not a native speaker of English so I want to make sure.

Thanks

Hi HaythamGhareeb,

"Oversight" is a noun which means "failure to see". In
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I think language will change day by day along with using in life.
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Hi,

I work in a global company and am faced by conundrums like this all the time! To judge whether a new use is acceptable or not I always google it to see where it has been used in this fashion - and by whom.

"Oversight", I find to my horror, is now used as a verb to mean: provide regulatory supervision or to review in the context of parliamentary checks and balances.
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So "oversight"can't be used as a verb in the sense of "control or monitor"?

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