Nominalization: World War I catalyze Europe’s crisis of civilizational morale...

[Linwings16]

Nominalization which I know is the movement from a verb form to a noun form, but I'm still confused with its usage. can anyone give me a better explaination with some examples ? Also, below are some sentence I'v done by using nominalization. Thank you so much!

-The catalyst for Europe's crisis of civilizational morale was World War I.
My sentence: World War I catalyze Europe’s crisis of civilizational morale.

- His presence cause transformation to roll across enslaved Europe as totalitarian regimes toppled like dominos.
My sentence: His presence transform enslaved Europe as totalitarian regimes toppled like dominos.

- Upon my emergence from customs in Phnom Penh - smiling, and dressed like an American traveler in loose-fitting black pants, a brown T-shirt, and sporty black sandals - I was greeted by frowns.
My sentence: Upon I emergend from customs in Phnom Penh – smiling, and dressed like an American traveler in loose-fitting black pants, a brown T-shirt, and sporty black sandals – I was greeted by frowns.

-Upon our arrival at the camp, we had to fill out the refugee papers.
My sentence: Upon we arrive at the camp, we had to fill out the refugee papers.

[Mister Micawber]

It seems to me that you are transforming in the other direction (from noun to verb).

World War I catalyzed Europe’s crisis of civilizational morale.

His presence transformed enslaved Europe as totalitarian regimes toppled like dominos.

When I emerged from customs in Phnom Penh....

When we arrived at the camp, we had to fill out the refugee papers.
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[Linwings16]

Thank you for the correction! I have always been confused with past tense and present tense. =) Here is another sentence which I have no clue how to transform its format. Do I need to transform the word "reconversion" to "reconvert"?

-Absent a reconversion of the continent, Europeans are going to find out whether Weigel is right.

Also, I'm doing a sentence with swithing active voice to passive voice or passvie to active.

- The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was won on Friday by a Kenyan woman who has spent her life fighting for the environment.

And my sentence is "The life fighting for the environment has been spent by a Kenyan woman who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize."
but, I'm confused with the first phrase "the life fighting for the environment has been spend by a Kenyan woman". Can I write this way or it makes no sense?

[Mister Micawber]

Well, I don't really understand the first sentence-- what does 'absent' mean here, and what part of speech is it supposed to be? I suppose the transformation would be to 'unless the continent reconverts'.

Actually, the text from which all of your sentences seem to be taken is a little oddly constructed-- it is stilted at best.

In your other sentence, you need to transform 'was won by a Kenyan woman' to 'a Kenyan woman won' and 'who has spent her life' to 'whose life has been spent'.
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[Linwings16]

Thank you very much for the respond, Mr. Micawber. =) I actually don't understand what does "absent" mean in the first sentence, and this is why I got confused with the whole sentence. I think I might just skip this word, and do "unless the continent reconverts, Europeans are going to find out whether Weigel is right."

For the send sentence, I've made the change to " A Kenyan woman who has spent her life fighting for th environment won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday."
Thank you again! Mr. Micawber.

[Etbrooks57]

I am still confused about nominalization nouns that have to be turned back into verbs. Are these words nominalizations: designed, communication, sized,connected,integrated, interconnected, provided, and needed

[Etbrooks57]

What are expletives words

[Mister Micawber]

These are nominalizations:

design, communication, size,connection, integration, interconnection, provision, and need.

expletive has 3 meanings:

1. an interjectory word or expression, frequently profane; an exclamatory oath: Damn!
2. a syllable, word, or phrase serving to fill out. In the line "When and that I was a little tiny lad," the words "and that" are expletives.

3. Grammar. a word considered as regularly filling the syntactic position of another, as it in 'It is his duty to go', or there in 'There is nothing here'.
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