ACTIVITY 144:
Read each pair of sentences and then complete the
gap in the second sentence in a less wordy way using verb-to-noun
and adjective-to-noun nominalisation. Then check the correct answers.
VERB-TO-NOUN
1.
Mariana hates men. Hence she is unmarried.
Mariana's
has kept her unmarried. .
2.
Daniel insisted I stay back for dinner. I reached
home late.
I reached home late
because of
back for dinner.
3.
My wife recognised the thief. This led her into
trouble.
My wife's
led her into trouble.
ADJECTIVE-TO-NOUN
4.
They measured how wide the road was.
They measured
of the road.
5.
The fact that he was thin put off movie directors.
