September 10, 2019
My Latest for Grammar Girl: “Verbing Nouns and Nouning Verbs”
A lot of people dislike it when nouns like task and dialogue are turned into verbs, but this process has been a normal part of English for centuries. In my latest piece for Grammar Girl, I explain why we should all relax a little about verbing nouns.
Read the whole piece or listen to the episode here.
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