Question

The following sentence contains a zombie noun: Our purchasing department will give consideration to the RFP submitted by Powertex. Group of answer choices True False

Answer 1

Answer:

Your answer would be that consideration is the zombie noun in the sentence above.

Explanation:

The sentence above contains a zombie noun, consideration. Zombie nouns, also called nominalizations, are nouns formed from verbs by adding a suffix. In this case, the verb from which the nominalization is derived from is consider.

When using the verb instead of the noun, you make your writing more powerful. If you replaced the nominalization with the verb, the sentence would be as follows: Our purchasing department will consider the RFP submitted by Powertex.