Interchange of Parts of Speech [Simple 2024 Guide]

In English, a word in a particular part of speech (noun/verb/adjective/adverb) can be changed into another part of speech. When we want to learn English we need to transform a noun into an adverb or a verb or an adjective as necessary.

The following interchanges of one part of speech to another are formed.

1. Noun

Noun to Verb: We can transform a noun into a verb. For example,

The blind man cannot see.

She is a blind woman.

We observe that the word blind works as a noun in the first sentence whereas it works as an adjective in the second sentence.

b. Noun to Adverb

c. Noun to Adjective

2. Verb

a. Verb to Noun

b. Verb to Adverb

c. Verb to Adjective

3. Adjective

a. Adjective to Noun

b. Adjective to Verb

c. Adjective to Adverb

4. Adverb

a. Adverb to Noun

b. Adverb to Verb

c. Adverb to Adjective

Change of Parts of Speech Example:

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Interchange of Noun to Adjective –

The blind man cannot see. (Noun)

She is a blind woman. (Adjective)

Interchange of Noun to Verb –

Let us go for a walk. (Noun)

The young man walked fast. (Verb)

Interchange of adjective to adverb –

My teacher wants an early reply from me. (Adjective)

He went too early. (Adverb)

Interchange of Verb to Adjective

My brother secured a fellowship. (Verb)

The place is secure for me. (Adjective)

Forms of some words in different parts of speech:

Noun	Verb	Adjective	Adverb
action	act	active	actively
addition	add	additional	additionally
agreement	agree	agreeable	agreeably
attraction	attract	attractive	attractively
advise	advise	advisable	advisably
attendance	attend	attentive	attentively
ability	enable	able	ably
accord	accord	accordant	accordingly
absence	absent	absent	absently
access	accede	accessible	accessibly
accident		accidental	accidentally
abuse	abuse	abusive	abusively
ache	ache	aching	achingly
acid/acidity	acidify	acid	acidly
acquisition	acquire	acquisitive	acquisitively
affection	affect	affectionate	affectionately
advance	advance	advanced
admission	admit	admissible	admissibly
anger	anger	angry	angrily
agony	agonize	agonized/agonising	agonisingly
ambition		ambitious	ambitiously
awe	awe	awsome/awful	awfully
analysis	analyse	analytical	analytically
answer	answer	answerable	answerably
black	blacken	black	blackishly
beauty	beautify	beautiful	beautifully
book	book (a seat)	bookish	bookishly
belief	believe	believable	believably
blood	bleed	bloody	bloodily
benefit	benefit	beneficial	beneficially
base	base	basic	basically
breadth	broaden	broad	broadly
brilliance		brilliant	brilliantly
circle	encircle	circular	circularly
cold	chill/cool	cool
class	classify	classic
care	care	careful	carefully
culture	culture	cultural	culturally
change	change	changeable	changeably
cloud	becloud	cloudy	cloudily
centre	centralise	central	centrally
chief		chief	chiefly
climate	acclimatise	climatic	climatically
comfort	comfort	comfortable	comfortably
collection	collect	collective	collectively
courage	encourage	courageous
condition	condition	condition	conditionally
completion	complete	complete	completely
connection	connect	connective	connectively
conclusion	conclude	conclusive	conclusively
day		daily	daily
death	die	dead
danger	endanger	dangerous	dangerously
dark	darken	dark	darkly
division	divide	divisional	divisionally
decision	decide	decisive	decisively
definition	define	definite	definitely
destruction	destroy	destructive	destructively
devotion	devote	devotional	devotionally
derivation	derive	derivative	derivatively
ego		egoistic	egoistically
end	end	endless	endlessly
emotion	emote	emotional	emotionally
existance	exist	existent	existently
extention	extend	extensive	extensively
electricity	electrify	electrical
equality	equal	equal	equally
effect	effect	effective	effectively
energy	energise	energetic	energetically
evolution	evolve	evolutional	evolutionally
fool	befool	foolish	foolishly
fruit	fructify	fruitful	fruitfully
friend	befriend	friendly
force	enforce	forceful	forcefully
final	finalize	final	finally
flow	flow	flowing	flowingly
freedom	free	free	freely
feast	feast	festive	festively
facility	facilitate	facile	facilely
gradation	grade	gradual	gradually
grace	grace	gracious	graciously
grammar		grammatical	grammatically
guilt		guilty	guiltily
greed	greed	greedy	greedily
glory	glorify	glorious	gloriously
gold	gild	golden, gilt
gain	gain	gainful	gainfully
guidance	guide	guided	guidedly
hand	handle	handy
heart	hearten	hearty	heartily
honour	honour	honourable	honourably
horror	horrify	horrible	horribly
harm	harm	harmful	harmfully
habit	habituate	habitual	habitually
helper	help	helped, helpless	helplessly
invention	invent	inventive	inventively
ignorance	ignore	ignorant	ignorantly
instruction	instruct	instructive	instructively
inclusion	include	inclusive	inclusively
imitation	imitate	imitative	imitatively
interest	interest	interesting	interestingly
industry	industrialize	industrial	industrially
ideal	idealize	ideal	ideally
infection	infect	infectious	infectiously
intelligence		intelligent	intelligently
joy	enjoy	joyous, joyful	joyously, joyfully
judge	adjudge	judical
jealousy		jealous	jealously
knowledge	know	knowledgeable	knowledgeably
laughter	laugh	laughable	laughably
life	live	living, alive
letter	literate	literal	literally
love	love	lovely	lovingly
law	legalise	lawful	lawfully
labour	labour	laborious	laboriously
liquid	liquidate	liquid
luck		lucky	luckily
measurement	measure	measurable	measurably
movement	move	movable	movably
marvel	marvel	marvellous	marvellously
method	methodize	methodical	methodically
mineral	mineralize	mineral	minerally
moisture	moisten	moist	moistly
memory	memorize	memorable	memorably
nation	nationalize	national	nationally
need	need	needy, needful	needfully
number	enumerate	numerical	numerically
necessity	necessitate	necessary	necessarily
name	nominate	nominal	nominally
nerve	nerve	nervous	nervously
nature	naturalize	natural	naturally
office	officiate	official	officially
occupation	occupy	occupational	occupationally
obedience	obey	obedient	obediently
observance	observe	observant	observantly
opposition	oppose	opposite	oppositely
organisation	organise	organised	organisedly
offence	offend	offensive	offensively
operation	operate	operational	operationally
object	object	objective	objectively
option	opt	optional	optionally
origin	originate	original	originally
occasion	occasion	occasional	occasionally
obligation	oblige	obligatory
person	personify	personal	personally
people	populate	popular, populous
practice	practise	practical	practically
pollution	pollute	pollutant	pollutantly
permission	permit	permissible	permissibly
peace	pacify	peaceful	peacefully
pain	pain	painful	painfully
progress	progress	progressive	progressively
power	empower	powerful
president	preside	presidential
pleasure	please	pleasant, pleasing
pressure	press
quiet	quiet, quieten	quiet	quietly
quarrel	quarrel	quarrelsome	quarrelsomely
red	redden	red, reddish	reddishly
rule	rule	regular, ruling	regularly
relation	relate	relative	relatively
respect	respect	respectable	respectably
remark	remark	remarkable	remarkably
reduction	reduce	reducible
refusal	refuse	refusable
response	respond	responsible, responsive
satisfaction	satisfy	satisfactory	satisfactorily
secrete	secrete	secrete	secretely
season	season	seasonal	seasonally
scare	scare	scary	scarily
salt	salt	saline, salty	saltily
sale	sell	saleable	saleably
society	associate	social, sociable
sympathy	sympathise	sympathetic	sympathetically
station	station	stationary	stationarily
success	succeed	successful, successive	successfully
section	section	sectional	sectionally
silence	silence	silent	silently
strength	strengthen	strong	strongly
summary	summarize	summary	summarily
symbol	symbolize	symbolical	symbolically
system	systematize	systematic	systematically
sense	sense	sensitive, sensible	sensitively, sensibly
synthesis	synthesize	synthetic	synthetically
service, servant	serve	serviceable
simplicity	simplify	simple
stability	establish	stable
theory	theorize	theoretical	theoretically
talent		talented	talentedly
thought	think	thoughtful	thoughtfully
talk	talk	talkative	talkatively
taste	taste	tasteful	tastefully
touch	touch	touchable, touching	touchably
verb		verbal	verbally
view	view	visible	visibly
virtue		virtual	virtually
valuation	value	valuable	valuably
venture	venture	venturous	venturously
width	widen	wide