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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.

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Cloze Scores of Nominalizations and Their Grammatical Transformations Using Active Verbs

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