Representing actions with nouns

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Introduction

This file introduces some of the main differences between speech and writing, and outlines the three main types of nominalisation .

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Introduction
 Differences between spoken and written English
 Three different types of nominalisation
 Verb to noun
 Verb to -ing form (commonly called gerunds)
 Another type of verb-to-noun nominalisation
 Adjective to noun
 Clause to noun