Nominalization & Cleft sentences

1. “... Most of the issues and concerns that engage our attention are not amenable to direct personal experience.” Transform this sentence into a Cleft sentence.

1. “this role of the news media in identifying the key issues and topics of the day and their ability to influence the salience of these issues and topics on the public agenda has come to be called the agenda-setting role of the news media”. Shorten this sentence by using nominalization.

Publication of the first explicit investigation of the agenda-setting role of mass communication was exactly fifty years ago. Is this nominalization or clefting?

Bernard Cohen observed that the news media may not be successful in telling people what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling their audiences what to think about. Clefting to emphasize the second clause.

1. Five issues dominated the media and public agendas during the 1968 US presidential campaign – foreign policy, law and order, economics, public, welfare, and civil rights. Cleft it to emphasize time.

Nominalization is _______ possible to use in a noun group instead of one or more ______ or ________ groups.

• often/verb/adjective

• always/verb/adjective

• often/noun/adjective

• often/noun/verb

“IT” _____ be used to emphasize adverbial phrases

• could

• can not

• can

• should

Nominalisation can refer back to processes already mentioned.

• TRUE

• FALSE

We use the following structure to emphasize a whole action or series of actions: “what+happen+be+that-clause”.

• FALSE

• TRUE

Cleft sentences are used to emphasize adjectives.

• TRUE

• FALSE