Sentences with phrase «word nominalization»

Both results, though, were skewed toward the «Flabby» end of the scale because I needed to use the word nominalization multiple times in the samples because of the purpose of the post.

Not exact matches

So, for example, even if a superior repeatedly points out to the person that he should ditch the here - and - there words and other forms of legalese (as The Lawyerist's Andy Mergendahl has advised here), or that nominalizations and buried verbs should be reworked into active voice, or that Enclosed please find (PDF) is silly and should be stricken from all correspondence, a month or two later the superior will see these legal - writing foibles in a letter, memorandum, or, worse, a brief filed with a court.

In other words, avoid nominalizations.

It will cross-out words, edit things you don't need or dull words, it will help you get rid of something that we call nominalizations, most lawyers have never even heard that word, but that's part of what makes our writing so dull sometimes is writing with nouns that could be verbs or WordRake will recognize a lot of those and brighten your writing, get rid of the clutter around them.

So why do legal writers use so many nominalizations containing - ion words?

In the second sentence, To prepare to clean it is substituted for the nominalization in preparation for our freshen - up (is freshen - up even a word?).