Call it “verbing.” Just as medieval alchemists sought to change base metals into gold, modern writers and speakers change nouns (“incentive,” “sunscreen,” “gift”) into verbs. The preceding examples ...

The conventional grammar wisdom is that turning verbs into nouns — or what is termed “nominalization” in linguistics — is bad for the health of one's prose. The evidence is painfully clear. Take this ...

However, there are many types of noun and noun phrase in English, and it can be difficult to know if a particular noun takes a singular verb (such as DOES / HAS / AM / IS ) or a plural verb (DO / HAVE ...