The Writing of Business Nominalization Exercise

In each of the following pairs of sentences, the first sentence in wordy because of heavy nominalization. The second sentence, a revision of the first, needs a strong verb to replace the empty verbs resulting from nominalizations. Fill in each blank with an appropriate word.

1. Determination of policy occurs at the managerial level.

   The manager _______________ policy.

2. The discussion concerned a tax law.

   We _______________ a tax law.

3. The auditor has no expectation that it will meet the deadline.

   The auditor does not _______________ it to meet the deadline.

4. We conducted an investigation of it.

   We _______________ it.

5. There was considerable confusion of the laws from the case.

   The case _______________ the laws considerably.

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