论文信息 - Cloze Scores of Nominalizations and Their Grammatical Transformations Using Active Verbs

Cloze Scores of Nominalizations and Their Grammatical Transformations Using Active Verbs

Nominalized sentences were compared by means of cloze tests to their grammatical transformations using active verbs. A mean of 9.63 words per S were filled in correctly for the nominalized sentences and 10.80 for their transformations using active verbs (p < .01). These results support previous findings that the active-verb version is more comprehensible.

E. B. Coleman | J. P. Blumenfeld | J. Blumenfeld

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