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ZBH Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

A few nominalisations

Are these nominalisations?
Manufacturers
The "measure" will raise...
Funding
Producers
Generation
Decisions
Victory
Food "marketing"
Announcements

They all can have a verb form, so these are nominalisations? Thank you for your help x
  

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ZBH Are these nominalisations? Not all of them. Find the verb that was used to create the noun.

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  • ZBH Are these nominalisations?
  • Not all of them.
  • Find the verb that was used to create the noun.
  • For example: Manufacture (verb) + r (suffix) = Manufacturer (noun, one who manufactures) Two types of nominalization are found in English.
  • One type requires the addition of a derivational suffix to create a noun.
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ZBHAre these nominalisations?
Not all of them.
Find the verb that was used to create the noun.

For example:
Manufacture (verb) + r (suffix) = Manufacturer (noun, one who manufactures)

Two types of nominalization are found in English. One type requires the addition of a derivational suffix to create a noun. In
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Okay. I thought they're be nominalisations because they have verb forms like:
Manufacturers - to manufacture
The "measure" will raise... - To measure
Funding - To fund
Producers- To produce
Generation- To generate
Decisions- To decide
Victory- To be victorious
Food "marketing" - To market
Announcements- To announce
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ZBH I thought they're be nominalisations because they have verb forms like:
No. Please see the definition of nominalisation and examples in your parallel thread.

manufacture / Manufacturer - OK
Measure / measure - ?? (You can look this one up.)
Fund / Funding - OK
Produce / Producer - OK
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