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1.1       root        1: Nominalizations        are nouns that have been created from verbs.
                      2: This  program  counts nouns ending in "ion," "ment," "ence,"
                      3: and "ance,"   e.g.,  "transformation,  "establishment,"         and
                      4: "admittance," as nominalizations.
                      5: 
                      6:      Because nominalizations make sentences hard to read and
                      7: add unnecessary        words, you should try to avoid them whenever
                      8: possible.  Compare "a" and "b":
                      9: 
                     10:   a.  The book is a description        of African wildlife.
                     11: 
                     12:   b.  The book describes African wildlife.
                     13: 
                     14: Because        of the nominalization, "description," "a" has  three
                     15: more words than        "b" and isn't as direct.
                     16: 
                     17:      To        find all the sentences  with  nominalizations,  type
                     18: the following command after this program is finished.
                     19: 
                     20:                     style -N filename
                     21: 
                     22:      To        find all the sentences containing either a   passive
                     23: verb  and  a  nominalization or        more than one nominalization
                     24: type:
                     25: 
                     26:                     style -n filename.

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