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BR Merchant Navy class 35028 ‘Clan Line’ with the Orient Express at Bristol Temple Meads.

BR rebuilt Merchant Navy class 35028 ‘Clan Line’ at Bristole Temple Meads station in 2012. The words train, station and express can all be used as a noun and also as a verb. A good many railway-related words are the same: funnel, steam, track, tender, wheel and whistle. But arrive is a verb, and can’t be used as a noun: try putting the, an, or his in front of it, and notice how you feel at a dead end. On the other hand, the word engine (and the more correct word locomotive) can’t be used as a verb: try putting I/you/we etc. before it; the result feels awkward.

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Verb or Noun

Use each word in this list in a sentence, and say whether you have used it as a noun or as a verb.

By Clay Lane

Exercises (32) Nouns (3) Verbs (7)

Introduction

Which of the words below can be used as a verb? Justify your answer using sentences.

The words in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 9 common words.

1 Loan. 2 Err. 3 Forgive. 4 Apartment. 5 Seem. 6 Commit. 7 Respond. 8 Destroy. 9 Gene.

Variations: 1.explain how you are distinguishing the verbs from other words. 2.where possible, derive a noun from each verb, e.g. arrive → arrival. 3.compose sentences using the words that are not verbs.

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