Representing actions with nouns
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Hong Kong Examinations Authority syllabus - AS Level
The ability to recognise and use nominalisations and to manipulate word classes is an immensely useful skill, and one which is deliberately tested in public examinations such as Part 2 of the AS Level Section C Paper Language Systems. Here is the 1999 syllabus with the relevant points highlighted in order to indicate areas in which an ability to recognise and use nominalisation may be necessary in order to complete the task satisfactorily:
Section C (2) Language Systems: Examining time 70 minutes; weighting 12%
This section tests the extent to which the systems of the English language have been internalised by the candidates:
the lexicon, the morphology, the syntactic relationships within and among phrases and clauses, and the structural relationships among sentences within paragraphs and in discourse.
Item types selected may vary from year to year. They will be objective but not necessarily multiple-choice.
Introduction
Hong Kong Examinations Authority syllabus - AS Level
