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ONE major word-formation process in English is to use the noun itself as a verb to express the action conveyed or implied by the noun, doing this without changing the form of the noun in any way. This ...

AS we should all know by now, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive ...

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You know that a company has truly gotten massive when its name becomes a verb. That’s what happened to Google, which aside from being a gigantic technology firm, is also the most common word ...