Nominalisation- nurries, nek minit
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Changing verbs to nouns
1. By changing the end of the verb form eg: discuss to discussion, arrange
to arrangement
2. By adding ing to the verb eg: act to acting
Some verbs can be used as nouns without any change eg: a visit, a struggle etc
Changing conjunctions to nouns
1. Conjunctions are commonly used to represent a cause
eg: Year 9 don’t like Miss DeCourcy because she is annoying.
We can change this to a noun by adding in a cause word
eg: Year 9’s reason for not liking Miss DeCourcy is the fact that she’s
annoying.
2. Conjunctions are commonly used to compare
eg: Gilroy is a big school but Oakhill is bigger.
We can change this to a noun by adding in a distinction
eg: One difference between Gilroy and Oakhill is their size.
Changing adjectives to nouns
1. By changing the adjective into the noun form eg: expensive to expense,
unstable to instability, tense to tension
eg: It was tense in the room.
This can be changed to include a noun form.
eg: There was a feeling of tension around the room.
How to nominalise
If the State Government didn't exist there wouldn't be anyone to look after the
schools and people would fight and destroy property everyday.
1. What is topic
a. State Government
2. What about topic
a. Role in the community
3. Identify verbs/conjunctions
a. Fight and destroy
4. Turn into nouns
a. Fights and destruction of property
5. Cleaning up unsophisticated phrases eg: what’s a better way of saying
a. “If state government didn’t exist”  “Without the State
Government”
b. “Everyday”  “Commonly occur”
Original: When people clear land for houses and roads they change the
environment. They destroy the forest and bushland and then many animals lose
their homes. More houses and roads will pollute the environment even more.
Some animals become extinct because their homes have been destroyed.
Nominalised: Clearing and development of land often results in the destruction
of the natural habitat of many local species. It may also increase the level of
pollution. Loss of habitat has already led to the extinction of many species of
animals.
General comments from task:
 ending/terminating/killing- terminate, discontinue
 aborting/killing - abort
 killing- euthanising (if Euthanasia)
 When you phrases like ‘many people OR a lot of people OR people around
the world’ you are communicating an understanding of volume as being
significant. Instead of using many or a lot use phrases such as “a
significant majority of the population”. Population not people, significant
majority not many.
 Word changes
o Use significant rather than large or enormous
o Use demonstrates or illustrates rather than shows
EXAMPLES
Original
Nominalised
Lately there has been an enormous
argument about the topic “Euthanasia“,
it has been brought to my interest
because many say that Euthanasia is
wrong and some people think its right.
In recent times, the debate about
Euthanasia has been significant as
there are opposing opinions.
Factors that affect couples chances of
IVF working and helping someone fall
pregnant include:
Factors affecting the success rate of IVF
include:
This issue causes much ethical debate
amongst medical professionals and
religious groups as it challenges many
parts of the value of human dignity.
The issue is the source of much ethical
debate amongst medical professionals
and religious groups as it challenges
the value of human dignity.
Its unfair so it’s only right that some of
them would not want to go on living
like this.
The unfairness of the situation makes
one question the likelihood of the
individual to desire living.
Euthanasia gives family or friends of
the deceased some comfort knowing
their loved one did not suffer any more
than they already was or were going to.
Euthanasia grants, family and friends,
comfort with the knowledge that their
loved ones did not experience any pain
or suffering.
Original
Nominalised
When the baby is born and it grows up
this could have negative feelings
towards to child, growing up without a
father and having your mum play both
roles would be a really rough time and
cause mental problems to the child.
Single parent households have the
potential to impact on the mental
health of the child, particularly with
regards to the role of the mother and
father figures.