Chapter 3: Turning Actions Into Things

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   Sprint 3.1: The Verb Becomes A Noun

   Learner converts a verb into its noun form and rebuilds the sentence around it.

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   Sprint 3.2: Packaging An Idea So It Can Be The Subject

   Learner packages the content of one sentence into a noun phrase and uses it as the subject of the next, which is the strongest join available in academic English.

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   Sprint 3.3: What The Package Hides

   Learner recognises when a nominalisation has removed information the argument needed — chiefly the doer — and restores it.

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   Sprint 3.4: The Sentence That Is All Nouns

   Learner unpacks a sentence that carries three or more nominalisations back into verbs, and stops treating noun-heavy prose as more academic.

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   Sprint 3.5: Register — When The Nouns Are Right

   Learner matches the density of nominalisation to the job the sentence is doing, using more of it in claims and analysis and less in examples and narrative.

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   Sprint 3.6: Nominalisation As A Link

   Learner uses a nominalised package to open a sentence, satisfying the given-new chain and the packaging skill at the same time.

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   Sprint 3.7: Chapter Repair — Packing And Unpacking

   Learner repairs a paragraph that is over-packed and one that is under-packed, without being told which is which.

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