In these next pages we’ll try to rewrite statements using nominalisations connected by a process.
The conflicts formed patterns which reflected how people were struggling over economic and political institutions.
First look for processes that could be nominalised:
Then try to find some nominalizations that make sense:
Then find a verb that could join the two groups (in this case there’s a good one already in the example):
There are many ways to rewrite this example, but here is the original snippet it was based on:
“The pattern of conflicts reflected the struggle over economic and political institutions.”
—Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
