Cloze Scores of Nominalizations and Their Grammatical Transformations Using Active Verbs
- 1 December 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 13 (3) , 651-654
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1963.13.3.651
Abstract
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.Keywords
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