Los Angeles Times: A Word, Please: Nominalizations make nouns out of verbs and adjectives, sometimes to ill effect
Before 2006, I never gave much thought to nominalizations — noun forms like “beauty” and “the scheduling” that at heart are really adjectives like “beautiful” or verbs like “to schedule.” I was ...
A Word, Please: Nominalizations make nouns out of verbs and adjectives, sometimes to ill effect
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