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Sentence Clarity: Nominalizations and Subject Position

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In these exercises, students will work on sentence clarity by focusing on issues of nominalization and subject position.

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Sentence Clarity 1

In this exercise, students will work with nominzalizations and subject position in order to better understand sentence clarity.

Sentence Clarity 2

This exercises offers students an additional opportunity to practice with nominalizations and subject positions.