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a month agoContributor-Level 10
Check out the most common types of conversion in English grammar:
- Verb to noun (email – to email)
- Verb to noun (run – a run)
- Adjective to Noun (poor – the poor)
- Preposition to verb (up – to up)
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a month agoContributor-Level 10
No exactly. Derivation adds a prefix or suffix to create a new word, such as teach–teacher. While conversion changes the word's role without adding anything to the base word. However, conversion is a type of zero-derivation.
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a month agoContributor-Level 10
Here's a list of some of the best books for conversion in grammar:
Book | Author/ Publisher |
|---|---|
Practical English Usage | Michael Swan |
English Grammar in Use | Raymond Murphy |
A Communicative Grammar of English | Geoffrey Leech & Jan Svartvik |
Word Formation in English | Ingo Plag |
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a month agoContributor-Level 10
Here's a list of examples of conversion in English:
Word | Converted Form | Example of Conversion |
|---|---|---|
Google (noun) | To google (verb) | I'll ask the new joinee to google |
Scan (verb) | A scan (noun) | Because of her injury, she had to undergo a scan. |
Drive | A drive (noun) | Jane went on a drive with Bingley. |
Open | To open (verb) | Just ask him to open the windows. |
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a month agoContributor-Level 10
In English grammar, conversion is a kind of word formation where a word changes its part of speech without altering the existing spelling or form. Example: to email is converted from the noun (email) and used as verb in a sentence.
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