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ZBH Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Am I correct that these are nominalisations?

A campaign (to campaign)
The hope (to hope)
More exercise (to exercise)
A row (to row/argue)
Obesity (to be obese)
Earnings (to earn)

I selected these because they can all take a verb form.
  

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ZBH Obesity (to be obese) Obese is not a verb. But obesity and obese are related words. One is a noun the other an adjective.

  • ZBH Obesity (to be obese) Obese is not a verb.
  • But obesity and obese are related words.
  • One is a noun the other an adjective.
  • I don't want to be obese , so I count my calories.
  • (Obese is an adjective ) If you want a verb-noun nominalisaton beginning with "ob", you can chose obey / obedience.
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ZBHObesity (to be obese)
Obese is not a verb.
But obesity and obese are related words. One is a noun the other an adjective.

I don't want to be obese, so I count my calories. (Obese is an adjective)

If you want a verb-noun nominalisaton beginning with "ob", you can chose obey / obedience.
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Thank you.
Does that make the rest nominalisations since they have verb forms?
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ZBHDoes that make the rest nominalisations since they have verb forms?
Not necessarily.
In linguistics, nominalisation is the use of a word which is not a noun (e.g. a verb, an adjective or an adverb) as a noun, or as the head of a noun phrase, with or without morphological transformation. The term can also refer specifically to the process
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wow, that was very insightful! Thank you! Emotion: smile x

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