English Grammar... Nominalization

What is nominaliztion? This is the act of turning words and phrases into nouns.In this lecture I shall teach you how words like ' strong, long, beautiful,late and so on' can be turned into nouns.When these words are turned into nouns their grammatical context also changes.This brings us to another grammatical component called 'Inflecxion'. What is inflexion? Inflexion is a change in the form of a word to show change of meaning.And this is why I said above that once a word has undergone nominalization, that is when it is changed to a noun it aquires a shade of meaning and its grammatical context automatically changes.

For instance in the sentence 'The building is a long one'. Here the word 'long' is an adjective qualifying the noun 'one' that represents the building.But if 'long' is changed to a noun it becomes 'length' and its grammatical context changes.For instance you cannot speak or write 'The building is a 'length' one'.This is a wrong sentence because the word 'length' is an abstract noun' .So the correct sentence becomes 'The length of the building is big'. The grammatical context has changed because of a change in the form of the word ' long'.It has turned to 'strength'. To be continued