Converting nouns and adjectives to verbs The new primary curriculum lays great emphasis on grammar and children will now learn to recognise nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. as a matter of course. An important part of this is to recognise that some nouns and adjectives can be converted into verbs and vice versa, some verbs can be made into nouns. The most common way of doing this is to add a suffix, although there is no single rule to cover this. For example, the noun pollen can be made into a verb by adding ATE: pollenate. The noun terror can be made into a verb using ISE: terrorise. Adding ISE, EN, IFY or ATE are the most common suffixes for changing nouns to verbs. This type of modification is a continuing process; I was at an Education show recently when someone told me he was going to ‘diarise’ the date I had given him. I later looked the word up and there it was, in the dictionary! Changing a noun into a verb can also be done by adding a suffix, often ER or OR.  We have just published two brilliant sets of worksheets which look at converting nouns and verbs. They can be found in our extensive Grammar and Vocabulary category, which now contains over 400 pages. Go to Converting Nouns and Adjectives to Verbs