Professor Lupin departed

In the next few pages we’re going to try writing some processes as nominalisations.

Here’s how it will work:

  1. I’ll give you a conversational description of an action, event or process
  2. You try to write it as a nominalisation
  3. Check the hidden instruction block to see the version as written in a real text

Let’s try one now.

Professor Lupin departed

How could you restate this event to make it a thing?

Professor Lupin’s departure

As in: “It wasn’t only Professor Lupin’s departure that was weighing on Harry’s mind.”

—J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban