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Nominalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In linguistics, nominalization is the use of a verb, an adjective, or an adverb as the head of a noun phrase, with or without morphological transformation. The term can also refer specifically to th...
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3. Nominalization is subject of empty verb. Our discussion concerned a tax cut. We discussed a tax cut. 4. Consecutive nominalizations There was a first a review of the evolution of the dorsal fin. First, she reviewed the evolution of the dorsal fin.
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Technical and scientific writers sometimes fall in love with abstract nouns because they feel that abtract writing is more objective. In truth, no communication between human beings can ever be completely objective; ... > Resources > Writing > Grammar and Syntax > Nominalization...
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Besides the nominalization, there is another common sentence which allows us to move the agent out of subject position and to delete the agent — the passive voice sentence. Passive voice allows us to take the usual order of agent & action & goal and to reverse the sequence into goal & action & agent.
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This technique is one of many to reduce "abuses" of nominalization, particularly among writers who have not yet developed a complex scientific vocabulary. I have to disagree with you that nominalization is only abused by students and politicians.
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Description | Example | Discussion | See also ... A nominalized verb is one that is turned into into a noun. ... 'Nominalization' is itself a nominalization of 'to nominalize'.
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Grammatical Nominalization ... As young writers become more comfortable writing, they often develop bad habits such as "grammatical nominalization." This term refers to a type of wordiness in which the writer uses both a noun and a verb when the verb alone would do the trick.
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In each of the following pairs of sentences, the first sentence in wordy because of heavy nominalization. The second sentence, a revision of the first, needs a strong verb to replace the empty verbs resulting from nominalizations.
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Incorrect: DistribSoft is used for the distribution of software. ... Correct: DistribSoft distributes software. ... There is/are/were + nominalization...
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A nominalization is a noun phrase that has a systematic correspondence with a clausal predication which includes a head noun morphologically related to a corresponding verb . ... Concept module: nominalization...
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