Representing actions with nouns

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Introduction

This file provides an overview of the ways in which speakers and writers commonly use nouns to represent actions and events, etc, and the reasons they have for doing so.

Note that the technical term for nouns which represent actions is nominalisation .

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Introduction
Examples which illustrate the concept of nominalisation
Reasons for using nominalisation
 A special type of nominalisation
 Types and styles of writing containing nominalisation