English Practice Now

Now let’s do some practice with nominalizing phrases. 

Some changes you might need to make:

• Changing nouns to their possessive forms
  • We established these three rules. This impacted two branches.
  • Our establishment of these three rules impacted two branches.

• Adding prepositions and other words: some words need prepositions or other words if they are changed to their noun forms.
  • The builders anticipated possible issues. This saved us $13,000.
  • The builders’ anticipation of possible issues saved us $13,000.