Yes, the word 'fly' is both a verb and a noun.
The noun 'fly' is a singular, common, concrete noun; a word for a thing. The noun 'fly' is a word for:
The noun forms of the verb to fly are flyer and the gerund, flying.
The plural form for the noun fly is flies.
Two--verb and noun. Verb: Kites fly. Noun: There is an annoying fly buzzing around my head.
The abstract noun form for the verb to fly is flyability, a word for a concept.
"Fly" is an active verb or a common noun. Example as a verb: Birds fly. Example as a noun: There is a fly in my soup. Example as one of each: A fly moves by flying.
No, it is an insect.
Yes the word flies is the plural noun of fly. Flies is also the present tense of the verb to fly.
The word fly (and the plural flies) is the noun form, a common concrete noun, a word for an insect.The abstract noun form for the verb to fly is flyability.The word fly is not an adjective; terms such as flypaper or fly-by are compound words. The adjective forms are the present participle, flying, and the past participle flown.And, last but not least, the word 'fly' used as an adjective is a slang term.
Nouns do not become abstract nouns, so fly as an insect has no abstract form. Fly as a verb has the noun form "flight" which can mean the act of flying or the act of fleeing (taking flight); a concrete noun as a word for a physical action. The abstract noun form of the verb to fly is flyability.
elephant is a noun not a action. fly is a noun and action
Its because fly is both a noun and a verb, so it can be done, and in this case a bird happens to be able to fly. But sadly, bird is a noun and not a verb, so you cannot bird.
Flies is the plural of the noun fly
Possibly, but not necessarily. Except for a few fossil forms, such as the -s marker of the third person singular indicative and the present system of to be there is no number in the English verb.