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Nouns versus verbs

Nouns versus verbs

Owned by Shira Nagel
Feb 20, 2016

A verb shows the action and a noun is the subject (person, place or thing). In most cases this is clear, for example, the dog (noun) ran (verb) home.
Some words though are commonly confused.

Noun

Verb

advice

advise

drill-down

drill down

effect

affect

follow-up

follow up

handout

hand out

licence

license

login

log in

practice

practise

quotation

quote


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