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PreciousJones Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Listen
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Anyway I bought the CD out of curiosity and brought it home for a listen.
If listen is a noun, is it used properly in this sentence?
Anyway I bought the CD out of curiosity and brought it home for a listen.
If listen is a noun, is it used properly in this sentence?
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Listen is a verb - " to listen ". However, in English (and other languages) it is possible to use verbs as nouns (it is called nominalization). org/wiki/Nominalization The sentence can be written to remove nominalization: Anyway , I bought the CD out of curiosity and brought it home to listen to it.
- Listen is a verb - " to listen ".
- However, in English (and other languages) it is possible to use verbs as nouns (it is called nominalization).
- org/wiki/Nominalization The sentence can be written to remove nominalization: Anyway , I bought the CD out of curiosity and brought it home to listen to it.
- "for a listen" is certainly common usage.
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Listen is a verb - "to listen". However, in English (and other languages) it is possible to use verbs as nouns (it is called nominalization). For details see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalization
The sentence can be written to remove nominalization:
Anyway
The sentence can be written to remove nominalization:
Anyway
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