Cloze Scores of Nominalizations and Their Grammatical Transformations Using Active Verbs

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.