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- noun Plural form of
nominalisation .
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Examples
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As far as style is concerned, my own take on that the use of nominalisations is justified by for cultural and historical reasons.
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A correspont writes to say he is having trouble with nominalisations.
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What ideas do you have on the differences in the use of nominalisations across cultures?
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Work on nominalisations have underpinned a lot of linguistic theories haven't they?
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I can't give a guide about when to use or not use nominalisations in a blog as my correspondent also asks - that would be a huge task.
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I can't give a guide about when to use or not use nominalisations in a blog as my correspondent also asks - that would be a huge task.
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In a section in Plain Words called 'the lure of the abstract word' he comments that avoiding nominalisations 'is more important than any other single thing if you would convert a flabby style into a crisp one'.
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They constantly use nominalisations such as 'progressive'.
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And to make matters worse, there seems to be instances where nominalisations are useful, particularly in academic writing.'
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So, in my view, using nominalisations makes a lot of sense, but mainly in the Anglo-American academic tradition.
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