\nI just checked two dictionaries: neither lists transition<\/em> as a verb. Yet, since the late 90s, I’ve heard sentences like “I found it challenging to transition from Schedule A to Schedule B.”\n<\/p>\n \nSpoken language evolves more quickly than academic. Transition<\/em> has become accepted as a verb in everyday speech, but I wouldn’t use it that way in a paper.<\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n Barber, Katherine et al. Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/em>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.\n<\/p> \nMish, Frederick C (editor). The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.\n<\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tutoring English, you watch it evolve. The tutor comments on the common use of transition as a verb. I just checked two dictionaries: neither lists transition as a verb. Yet, since the late 90s, I’ve heard sentences like “I found …<\/p>\n