W dniu 2014-01-29 03:56, Kumara Bhikkhu pisze:
> Marcin Miłkowski wrote thus at 08:06 PM 28-01-14:
>> Try:
>> <token inflected="yes">conduct</token>
>> instead.
>
> Thanks for the tip. I was wondering about it.
>
>
>> I tried your rule using our rule editor:
>> http://community.languagetool.org/ruleEditor/expert
>> and we have lots of matches, but some of them are quite useless, for
>> example:
>>
>> Mozart's Davide penitente (1785), his Piano Concerto KV 482 (1785), the
>> Clarinet Quintet (1789) and the 40th Symphony (1788) had been premiered
>> on the suggestion of Salieri, who supposedly conducted a performance of
>> it in 1791. (wikipedia)
>
> It's relevant actually. It can be revised as "who
> supposedly performed it in 1791." Unnecessary
> nominalisation is so common these days that most
> people put up with it to the point of ignoring
> it.
I'm afraid you're wrong. Salieri couldn't perform the 40th Symphony by
himself. He was conductor of the performance, so the only possible way
to say this correctly is to say that he conducted a performance of the
symphony rather that he performed it. It makes no sense to think that a
single person performs a symphony! ;)
> Students often use it to make their writing
> sound more pompous, which is counterproductive.
I agree, this is pompous in many cases.
>
>
>> You can use the following queries on corpus.byu.edu corpora:
>> conduct a|an|the|no [n*] of|into
>> conduct a|an|the|no [n*] * of|into
>> conduct a|an|the|no [n*] * * of|into
>> conduct a|an|the|no [n*] * * * of|into
>
> Yes, I'm using that (minus "the", which suggest
> that the noun refers to a specific thing
> mentioned earlier, thus the nominalisation is necessary).
Yeah, you're right. As you can see there, we also should add relevant
exceptions to your rule ('deal' - from "a great deal", 'range', etc.).
So could you please look at the corpora results again?
Best,
Marcin
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