Business C1 · Unit 2 · Strategy & competitive advantage
2B. Turning verbs into strategy
C1 · Advanced Business English · nominalisation & formal register
Unit 2B · Epigraph
"A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences."
Objectives
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise nominalisation and judge, sentence by sentence, whether it earns its place.
- Move fluently between verb-heavy (accountable) and noun-heavy (compressed, formal) versions of the same idea.
- Diagnose the political function of hidden agency in corporate prose.
- Write a paragraph in formal register that compresses without concealing.
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