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Re: noun forms of verbs

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Saturday, November 17, 2001, 19:26
Ar 09:46 17/11/01 -0800, bhac nicole dobrowolski le scríobh chugam:

>ok suppose you take the verb "to sleep"... one way to turn it into a >noun would be "sleeper" or "sleepers" referring to someone who sleeps >but you could also use sleep as a noun as in "i didn't get any >sleep"... there are other verbs that this works for as well but my >question is: would it be valid to say that "food" is a noun form of >the verb "to eat"?
Um, no. But I guess that `eatings', which is a noun anyway, could be overloaded tenuously with that meaning like `the eatings' = `the food'. K. -- Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> http://homepage.eircom.net/~kmgaughan/ I can decide what I give / But it's not up to me / What I get given -=Bjork=-