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In these pairs, verbs take the stress on the last syllable; nouns on the first. See Re: The accent problem of two-syllabled-words for further discussion and a list of verbs. CJ

Mister Micawber wrote: 'Did you see them go' and 'did you seem them going' are both correct. Some verbs can take the bare infinitive (no ' to ') as object, some can take the -ing form as object, some can take either and some can take neither. MM, thank you for the reply. But the the object of...

I walked into that reading-room a happy healthy man . I crawled out a decrepit wreck . (from Three men in a boat -- to say nothing of the dog! by J.K. Jerome) I've been thinking, without any doubt, that these noun phrases in navy blue above are subject complements. I've just found, though,...

As Mr. Micawber has mentioned, this transform is no longer productive in modern English. There are hundreds of such Latin roots which occur in such pairs. It would probably be impractical to try to learn all the patterns. Nevertheless, if that sort of thing interests you, you might try...

Ethanw wrote: Can anybody, please, give me a complete list of verbs which take direct and indirect objects, such as: Mom cooks me fish for dinner all the time? Rather than a list of verbs which take both d.o. and ind. o. perhaps an understanding of the concept is better. The direct object is who...

Sir, I have been given a list of verbs like (swim,eat,run..etc). I am asked to make noun for these verbs. I have no idea how to make noun execept consulting thge dictionary. Can you please provide me some guide line on this topic. Thanks.

A very interesting question: the --ed ending IS one of the signs to tell us that a word is a verb. The tricky thing in English is that some words can belong to more than one "word class" so some verbs can be nouns (and vice versa.) From the examples you give, we can have "the work" (which...