Question

Reframe the sentence using the noun form of the underlined word-
You performed gracefully.

Answer 1

Hint: Try to understand the context of the given sentence. Choose the word which can best express the context of the sentence while keeping in mind that it should be a noun.

Complete answer: As given in the hint, we need to use a noun in place of the verb without altering the meaning of the sentence.
A noun is a word that is used to indicate the name of a person, place, thing or an animal. It can also be used to denote feelings, emotions and state.
A verb refers to a word that is used to indicate the action performed by the subject. For example- We cooked food for the elderly couple. Here, ‘cooked’ is a verb as it indicates an action performed by the subject.
Now, whenever we change a verb into a noun, we follow certain rules-
(i)A suffix is added to the verb. (A suffix refers to a letter or a word that is added at the end of a verb to change the meaning of the word.)
(ii)We can also use an article with the verb to replace its function with that of a noun.
In the given question- ‘Performed’ is a verb. Hence, the correct answer is; Your performance was graceful.
Here, we have used ‘was’ because the verb is given in the past tense form. ‘Performance’ is a noun that is formed by adding the suffix ‘ance’ to the verb ‘perform’.

Note: Keep in mind, many nouns use their own distinct forms of suffixes that are added to verbs. We can also add possessive pronouns to change the sense of the verb.