Презентация на тему Conversion

the creation of a word (of a new word

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

Verbification (verbing)
is the creation of a verb from a noun, adjective or other word.

poor, the good, the accused, the British;
from nouns to

adjectives
e.g. stone wall, air passage, zero modification;
from verb to noun
e.g. to call > a call; to guess > a guess; to spy > a spy;
from nouns to verb
e.g. a bottle > to bottle; water > to water; a hammer > to hammer;
from adjectives to verb
e.g. to clean, to round, to dry, to calm down

)
from adjective to adverb (e.g. bitter cold, wide open)
from noun to adverb (e.g. I’m going home)
from adverb to noun (e.g. ups and downs)
from verb to preposition ( e.g. including, regarding, concerning)
from verb to adjective
other rare and special types of
conversion
(e.g. An up-in-the-air feeling,
a forget-me-not, a must-have,
If you uh-uh again, I won’t go on
with my story)

or joking words.
beer > beer me ("give me

a beer") eye > eye it ("look at it")

HUMOROUS EFFECTS