Give me liberty

Try rewriting this example using nominalisations. Most of what you need is already in the example, you just have to mould it a little.

Transportation and communication began to improve, and this made it possible for the West to rise as a powerful, self-conscious region of the new nation.

Rewrite the snippet as two nominalisations connected by a process.

Again, there are many possible ways to handle this, but here’s the original snippet:

“Improvements in transportation and communication made possible the rise of the West as a powerful, self-conscious region of the new nation.”

—Give Me Liberty, Eric Foner

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