I was not even sure I could change it at all, but I was convinced that I had to change my foot plant and land higher on my forefoot, rather than my heel.

It took Cindy ten minutes to coax the horripilated feline from beneath a car, his trust in her utterly shattered. But his attention span being only marginally longer than the life span of certain theoretical subatomic particles, he soon could not remember what he was doing underneath a Volvo in the first place, and was eager to be back in the warmth of his human's arms.

Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.

In modern parlance, the difference between nouns, adjectives, and verbs has blurred somewhat: nouns take on the appearance of adjectives, verbs become nounified, and so on.