Before 2006, I never gave much thought to nominalizations — noun forms like “beauty” and “the scheduling” that at heart are really adjectives like “beautiful” or verbs like “to schedule.” I was ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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, without changing the form of the noun in any way. This direct ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week’s column discussed the two general forms of noun clauses in English, namely finite noun clauses and nonfinite noun clauses. A finite noun clause is a subordinate clause in which the ...

People have been turning nouns into verbs for centuries – so why does it grate so much? Brandon Ambrosino takes a look. While many of us in the northern hemisphere may have been away somewhere nice ...