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 what is nominalization

When a verb, adjective or adverb is changed so as to become a noun, it is known as nominalisation. 

 

For example:

Continue(verb) changes to continuation (noun)

Agree(verb) changes to agreement (noun)

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 In linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation is the use of a verb, an adjective, or an adverb as the head of a noun phrase, with or without morphological transformation. The term can also refer specifically to the process of producing a noun from another part of speech via the addition of derivational affixes (e.g., legalize versus legalization).[1]

Nominalization happens in languages around the world. Some languages simply allow verbs to be used as nouns, while others require some form of morphological transformation. English has cases of both.

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