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Emphasis & advanced · CEFR C2 · Mastery
Formal writing turns actions into nouns, which makes a sentence denser and less personal. Useful, and easy to overdo into unreadability.
The shape
decide → the decision · fail → the failure
Write in the register reports and papers are written in.
In Hindi
औपचारिक लेखन कामों को संज्ञा बना देता है, जिससे वाक्य घना और कम व्यक्तिगत हो जाता है।
CoCap explains every structure in both languages, because a rule you understand in Hindi is a rule you can use in English.
The sentence Indian-English speakers actually produce, and the reason it is wrong.
| Commonly said | Correct English |
|---|---|
We investigated it and we concluded that it failed. | The investigation concluded that the project had failed. Both are correct — the second is the register a formal report is written in. |
Close enough to be mixed up with this one. Knowing the difference is most of knowing either.
Where this structure sits in the ladder, and what surrounds it.
Nominalisation is a CEFR C2 structure — the mastery band — and it belongs to emphasis & advanced. CoCap’s syllabus files every structure this way so you can learn in order instead of jumping between whatever a search happened to return.
CoCap turns this page into practice: Hindi sentence in, English sentence out, corrected one thing at a time. Free, no card.
Practise the nominalisation →