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understand how abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise ideas in text (AC9E9LA06)

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  • exploring sections of academic and technical texts, and analysing the use of abstract nouns; for example, “the previous argument”, “the prologue”, to summarise and distil information, structure the argument and summarise preceding explanations
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Nominalisation,  Nouns

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