Fairy Tales and Academic or Professional Writing The writing can seem obscure and pointless if the characters are not the subject, and abstract nouns are the actions.
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The reader may feel as though the writing is too complicated if too many abstract nouns are used. For instance, words such as resist for resistance, different for the difference, or careless for carelessness and so on. Again, readers will get a better understanding when the writing is direct, clear and readable, this will happen if the writer connect subjects to characters and verbs to action. Look at exercise 3.1 for a clearer understanding of how to identify verbs, adjectives, and nominalizations. See exercise 3.2 for practice in detecting the subject, character, verb, and