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David Bowman's Blog – January 2012 Archive (2)

Action Verbs Good. Nominalizations Bad.

What are nominalizations?

Nominalizations are the noun forms of action verbs, as seen here:

Sample action verbs - Corresponding nouns

illustrate – illustration

fail – failure

react – reaction

announce – announcement

increase (v.) – increase (n.) 

Why are they bad, and how do I fix them?

Nominalizations have…

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Added by David Bowman on January 18, 2012 at 11:18pm — 2 Comments

Active Voice and Passive Voice

Active and Passive Voice: When you are active, you do something. When you are passive, things happen to you. This is the same concept as the active and passive voice in sentences.

In the active voice, the subject performs the action described by the main verb. In the passive voice, the action…

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Added by David Bowman on January 3, 2012 at 8:50pm — No Comments

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