What is nominalisation?

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Nominalisation is used frequently in academic writing to formalise the tone or voice of the sentence. The process is to take a key verb and convert it into the noun form of the verb. The effect of this is to move the focus of the sentence from action (the verb) to a key concept (the noun). It changes the effect of the sentence and makes it formal, academic and ideas-driven because the key word is now foregrounded at the front of the sentence.