One of the most difficult things about English, is that there are very little way of signals to tell people the nature of the word. For example, in Japanese and Spanish languages all the verbs have similar endings but it is not same in English.
The same word can even fall into multiple categories in English. “Trust” is a noun but it is also categorized as a verb. “Quiet” is both a noun and an adjective where as its opposite, “loud”, is only an adjective.And the word “Abstract” is all three!
In fact, almost any adjective can be used as a noun, just putting “the” in front of it and any noun can be used as a verb: “I’ll cookie you!” The possibilities are endless if you’re creative. All this makes English a lot of fun and interesting but at the same time it also makes the language complicated!
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