Conversion of Words

Note

Note A particular word may have a [noun] form, a [verb] form, an [adjective] form, and an [adverb] form.

e.g.,

| Noun | Verb | Adjective | Adverb | |---|---|---|---|---------|-------------------| | Joy | Enjoy | Joyful | Joyfully | | Beauty | Beautify | Beautiful | Beautifully |

The deliberate transfer of a word from one part of speech to another part is technically known as Conversion.

Suffix & Prefix: The formation of words through Conversion or any other process is generally done by the use of Suffixes and prefixes.

Formation of Noun from Verb to the necessity for changing the verbs into nouns: → ment, sion, ence, tion, ty, age, -cy, ure, -y, -th, ness, ship, dom, hood, ce

Verb	Noun
Abound	Abundance
Admit	Admission
Apply	Application
Attract	Attraction
Add	Addition
Arrange	Arrangement
Adopt	Adoption
Agree	Agreement
Amend	Amendment
Arrive	Arrival
Approve	Approval
Assist	Assistance
Allot	Allotment
Amaze	Amazement
Act	Action
Attend	AttendanceAffect → Affection
Associate	Association
Assure	Assurance
Announce	Announcement
Advise	Advice
Apologise	Apology
Belong	Belongings
Bless	Blessing
Believe	Belief
Break	Breakage
Build	Building
Byte	Bit
Behave	Behaviour
Breathe	Breath
Conceal	Concealment
Choke	Choice
Carry	Carriage
Converse	Conversation
Commit → CommitmentCollection natriyoq
Creation boof
Combination withvoop
Decision utnav
Deception oono
Deed kloft
Draft notnun
Division nuvonk
Defence nuent
Departure notnl
Dictation gboo
Destruction word
Discovery xtred
Eatable xred
Existance nnod
Expectation verdr
Flight nogn
Failure nvtonFurnish	Furniture
Feed	Food
Guard	Guardian
Grow	Growth
Heal	Health
Invent	Invention
Insure	Insurance
Intend	Intention
Judge	Judgement
Know	Knowledge
Liberate	Liberty
Learn	Learning
Move	Movement / Motion
Mean	Meaning
Meet	Meeting / LiaisonNationalise / Nationalization
Narrate / Narration
Obiedient / Obedience
Offend / Offence
Officiate / Office
Occupy / Occupation
Perform / Performance
Precise / Prediction
Prove / Proof
Produce / Production
Predict / Prediction
Provide / Provision
Practice / Practise
Pass / Passage
Quote / Quotation
Run / Race
Recieve / Reception
Respond / ResponseStudy	Student
-------	--------
Strike	Stroke
Succeed	Success
Try	Trial
Vacate	Vacancy

| Adjective | Adj | Verb ------- | -------- |-------------|-------- Clean | a clean room | Clean the room Empty | an empty bottle | empty the bottle Narrow | a narrow road | Narrow the gap Calm | Class is calm | Calm down

Compounding: It is possible to make new words in English by combining two or more words.

Ex: Main road, moonlight, sunrise etc.Compound nouns: Raincoat, Leather jacket, Wheelchair Postman, British Empire, etc.

Compound Adjectives: Trustworthy, Widespread, Brandnew, Oldstock, Sweetheart

Compound Verbs: Runshot, Stagemanage, giveup, Outwit, Outlook

Exercise: a) Add prefixes to change the meanings of the following words: Normal, like, Partial, Successful, Adequate, integrate, locate, decent, pure.

b) Add suffixes to change the meanings of the following words: Advise, fever, Examine, regular, lonely, friend.c) Convert the nouns into verbs and use them in sentences.

message, host, eye, crowd, place,

d) Fill in the blanks with the correct noun form of the word given in brackets.

1. The arrival (arrive) of the train was delayed.
2. Education leads to national development (develop).
3. Her decision (decide) surprised everyone.
4. He is a good leader (lead).

e) Convert and rewrite the sentences using the adjective forms of the nouns in bold.

1. It is a problem of “Danger”.

2. He showed great “Confidence”.3) This mission has "power".

3. She spoke with "emotion".

F.I.B

1. We admired her _______ (brave)

2. _______ (dark) filled the room.

3. Health is more important than _______ (rich).

4. His _______ (polite) impressed everyone.

State whether the word underlined is a noun or an adjective.

1. Please clean the board (verb)

2. The board is clean (Adj)

3. They went for a walk (Noun)

4. We walk every morning (Verb)