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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Making nouns from verbs

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Which particular verbs did you have in mind?

  • Which particular verbs did you have in mind?
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Which particular verbs did you have in mind?
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There are many families of verb-noun pairs. Here's one:

vacate > vacation

isolate > isolation

explicate > explication

estimate > estimation

deviate > deviation

abbreviate > abbreviation

evaluate > evaluation

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You'll need to do some research to find all the different families, if that's even wh
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Some verbs can be used as nouns with no change in form:

I'm going for a swim.

The lion just made a kill.

That was a good throw.

I'm going to take a walk.

Etc.

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