Nominalization which I know is the movement from a verb form to a noun form, but I’m still confused with its usage. can anyone give me a better explaination with some examples ? Also, below are some sentence I’v done by using nominalization. Thank you so much!
-The catalyst for Europe’s crisis of civilizational morale was World War I.
My sentence: World War I catalyze Europe’s crisis of civilizational morale.
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His presence cause transformation to roll across enslaved Europe as totalitarian regimes toppled like dominos.
My sentence: His presence transform enslaved Europe as totalitarian regimes toppled like dominos.
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Upon my emergence from customs in Phnom Penh - smiling, and dressed like an American traveler in loose-fitting black pants, a brown T-shirt, and sporty black sandals - I was greeted by frowns.
My sentence: Upon I emergend from customs in Phnom Penh – smiling, and dressed like an American traveler in loose-fitting black pants, a brown T-shirt, and sporty black sandals – I was greeted by frowns.
-Upon our arrival at the camp, we had to fill out the refugee papers.
My sentence: Upon we arrive at the camp, we had to fill out the refugee papers.
It seems to me that you are transforming in the other direction (from noun to verb).
World War I catalyzed Europe’s crisis of civilizational morale.
His presence transformed enslaved Europe as totalitarian regimes toppled like dominos.
When I emerged from customs in Phnom Penh…
When we arrived at the camp, we had to fill out the refugee papers.
Thank you for the correction! I have always been confused with past tense and present tense. =) Here is another sentence which I have no clue how to transform its format. Do I need to transform the word “reconversion” to “reconvert”?
-Absent a reconversion of the continent, Europeans are going to find out whether Weigel is right.
Also, I’m doing a sentence with swithing active voice to passive voice or passvie to active.
- The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was won on Friday by a Kenyan woman who has spent her life fighting for the environment.
And my sentence is “The life fighting for the environment has been spent by a Kenyan woman who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.”
but, I’m confused with the first phrase “the life fighting for the environment has been spend by a Kenyan woman”. Can I write this way or it makes no sense?
Well, I don’t really understand the first sentence-- what does ‘absent’ mean here, and what part of speech is it supposed to be? I suppose the transformation would be to ‘unless the continent reconverts’.
Actually, the text from which all of your sentences seem to be taken is a little oddly constructed-- it is stilted at best.
In your other sentence, you need to transform ‘was won by a Kenyan woman’ to ‘a Kenyan woman won’ and ‘who has spent her life’ to ‘whose life has been spent’.
Thank you very much for the respond, Mr. Micawber. =) I actually don’t understand what does “absent” mean in the first sentence, and this is why I got confused with the whole sentence. I think I might just skip this word, and do “unless the continent reconverts, Europeans are going to find out whether Weigel is right.”
For the send sentence, I’ve made the change to " A Kenyan woman who has spent her life fighting for th environment won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday."
Thank you again! Mr. Micawber.
I am still confused about nominalization nouns that have to be turned back into verbs. Are these words nominalizations: designed, communication, sized,connected,integrated, interconnected, provided, and needed
What are expletives words
These are nominalizations:
design, communication, size,connection, integration, interconnection, provision, and need.
expletive has 3 meanings:
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an interjectory word or expression, frequently profane; an exclamatory oath: Damn!
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a syllable, word, or phrase serving to fill out. In the line “When and that I was a little tiny lad,” the words “and that” are expletives.
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Grammar. a word considered as regularly filling the syntactic position of another, as it in ‘It is his duty to go’, or there in ‘There is nothing here’.