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Avoid nominalisations

  • ★
    • About
  • Symbols Used
  • Style-Guide Content
    • Spelling
      • Conventions
        • UK & US Spelling
        • Digraphs
        • Double Consonants before Suffixes
      • Diacritics
      • Italics
      • Hyphens
        • Hyphens in fractions
        • Hyphens with prefixes
        • Hyphens in compound adjectives
        • Hyphens and phrasal verbs
        • Hyphens and double consonants or vowels
        • Hyphens and multiple compounds
    • Punctuation
      • General guidelines
      • Full stops
        • Indirect questions
        • Elements in lists
        • Headings
        • Sentences ending in abbreviations with final point
        • Footnotes and endnotes
      • Colons
        • Common mistakes with colons
        • Other uses of colons
      • Semicolons
        • Main functions of semicolons
        • Alternatives to the semicolon
        • Using semicolons
        • Using semicolons in exceptional circumstances
      • Commas
        • Listing items in a series
        • Joining sentences
        • Setting off phrases
        • Other uses of commas
      • Dashes
      • Brackets
        • Round brackets
        • Square brackets
      • Question marks
      • Quotation marks
      • Exclamation marks
      • Apostrophes
      • Ellipsis points
    • Capitalisation
      • After a colon
      • Beginning of a sentence
      • Sentence capitals
      • Titles
      • Proper nouns
        • Titles and ranks
        • Geographical locations
        • Reference
        • Dates, periods and events
        • Languages and nationalities
        • Official documents
        • Education
          • Subjects, courses, degrees and disciplines
          • Chairs and knowledge areas
          • Grades
          • Academic periods
        • Public institutions and organisations
    • Abbreviations and Symbols
      • Forming abbreviations
        • Forming acronyms and initialisms
        • Forming contractions and truncations
      • Using abbreviations
        • Using acronyms and initialisms
        • Using contractions and truncations
      • Abbreviations and grammar
      • Abbreviations in a multilingual context
      • Symbols
        • Ampersands
        • Capitalisation and lowercasing
        • Multiplication signs
        • Percentages
      • Abbreviating units of measurement
    • Numbers
      • Writing out numbers
      • Numbers and punctuation
      • Numbers and units of measurement
      • Numbers and ranges
      • Time of day
      • Dates
      • Currencies
      • Billions
      • Telephone numbers
    • Gender
      • Third-person pronouns
        • Personal pronouns
        • Use of he or she
        • Indefinite pronouns
        • Use of you
      • Gender-neutral titles
        • Gender-neutral forms for referring to men and women
        • Re-gendering
        • Plural nouns
        • Collective nouns
        • Impersonal expressions
      • Use of Mr, Mrs and Ms
      • Gender and problematic words
    • Singular and plural
      • Words with unusual plural forms
      • Common problems with singular and plural
      • Collective nouns and the number of the verb
      • Collective nouns and the number of the verb
      • Nouns used as adjectives
    • Translation
      • Names
        • People’s names
        • Public figures
        • Historical figures
        • Place names
          • Place names in the Catalan-speaking territories
          • Rivers and lakes
          • Seas
          • Islands
          • Mountain ranges
          • Landmarks and buildings
        • Public institutions
        • Universities
        • Courses
        • Public lectures
        • Books, music and art
        • Awards
        • Museums
        • Political parties and unions
        • Official gazettes
        • Companies
        • Trade fairs and conferences
      • Forms of address
      • Currencies and measures
      • The word ‘web’ versus the word ‘internet’
      • Latin
      • Terms that have no established translation
      • Varieties of English
    • Writing in English
      • Structure
      • Sentences
      • Subjects and characters
      • Verb and actions
      • Verbs
      • Cohesion
      • Parallelism
      • The unofficial style
      • Concision
        • Reduce clauses
        • Delete superfluous words and phrases
        • Avoid nominalisations
        • Avoid overuse of expletives
        • Do not make vague attributions
        • Make direct statements
        • Do not hedge excessively
      • Summary
    • Tools for Text Production
      • Spell checkers
      • Grammar checkers, thesauruses and translation dictionaries
      • Automatic correction tools
      • Configuring language tools in your word processor
      • Special characters
      • Word wrap and word division
      • Character sets and encoding
      • Team projects and revision of texts
      • Online word processors and other online tools
      • Conclusions
    • Model Documents
      • Application
        • Model Application
      • Resolution
        • Model Resolution
      • Notification
        • Model Notification
      • Certificate
        • Model Certificate
      • Internal Certificate
        • Model Internal Certificate
      • Letter
        • Model Letter 1: Giving information
        • Model Letter 2: Asking for Information
      • E-Mail
        • Model E-Mail 1: Giving information
        • Model E-Mail 2: Asking for information
      • Agreement
        • Model Agreement
    • Appendices
      • Appendix 1: Common contractions, truncations and initialisms
      • Appendix 2: Guidelines and directives on the use of non-sexist language
      • Appendix 3: Unusual plural forms
      • Appendix 4: Latin terms with English equivalents
  • Reference Works
  • Links

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