What is nominalization?
Aviation journalism, airworthiness directives, and certification reports share a distinctive style: they rarely write “the crew completed the maiden flight.” Instead, they write “the successful completion of the maiden flight“ — converting a verb into a noun phrase. This process is called nominalization, and it is one of the most visible markers of formal English at C1 level.
Nominalization converts a verb or adjective into a noun or noun phrase. The result is denser and more analytical in register — a feature that runs through technical aviation prose from airworthiness directives to earnings calls.
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