Conversion

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University named after I.Jansugurov

Conversion

Taldykorgan city

Created by: Begimbekova Saltanat

formation; specifically, it is the creation of a word (of

a new word class) from an existing word (of a different word class) without any change in form

English is noun to verb conversion. The following list provides

examples of verbs converted from nouns:

For example
access – to access bottle – to bottle can – to can closet – to closet email – to email eye – to eye fiddle – to fiddle fool – to fool

1)The doctor eyed (verb) my swollen eye (noun).
2) She microwaved (verb) her lunch. She heated her lunch in the microwave (noun).

is verb to noun conversion. The following list provides examples

of nouns converted from verbs:

to alert – alert to attack – attack to call – call to clone – clone to command – command to cover – cover
to cry – cry to experience – experience

The guard alerted (verb) the general to the attack (noun).

other grammatical forms. For example:
adjective to verb: green → to

green (to make environmentally friendly) preposition to noun: up, down → the ups and downs of life interjection to noun: ho ho ho → I love the ho ho hos of Christmastime.

to think. They are just readjustments within the same language,

like additions to existing items or recombination of elements. This is where the field of action of conversion may be placed, and that is why this type of morphological studies reveals interesting aspects in the diachronic evolution of the English language. There are evident cases of conversion from one part of speech to another, unclear cases in which the grammatical category is not definitely shifted, secondary changes within the same word and marginal cases where the change has produced slight modifications. The real examples provided indicate the high frequency of this process. It is quite a common phenomenon is everyday English. In addition, it is not a great source of problems for nonnative speakers and translators because the meaning of converted items is easily recognisable. However, nonnatives and translators are strongly advised to be taught conversion so that their passive knowledge of it can be turned into an active skill, with the subsequent lexical enlargement for their everyday communication.