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Re: Grammar Gang - a nifty blog

Subject: Re: Grammar Gang - a nifty blog
From: jimmy -at- breck-mckye -dot- com
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:12:54 +0000

I once heard an interesting - but dubious - theory that nominalizations become popular as societies grow more complex. As actions and agency gets hidden behind longer and longer chains of command, and actions stop being things that one person does, but long-term projects that are things in their own right, we feel obliged to use passives and nominalizations to reflect our more complex world.

I have no idea if this is true, though.

On 26.01.2012 17:10, Monique Semp wrote:

Ran across this blog today when I surfed on âwhat is nominalization
in english grammarâ: http://thegrammargang.blogspot.com/

(The post I landed on is this:

http://thegrammargang.blogspot.com/2009/04/style-tips-avoiding-over-nominalization.html.)

It doesnât look like itâs a very active blog, but I found it quite
interesting and helpful.

Happy reading,
-Monique

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