Task B, Academic Tone and Style: Nominalisation (Identifying Head Nouns, MC Exercise)

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What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is only one.)

'...a previously unknown landscape painting by Vincent Van Gogh...'

(Used with permission by the BBC)
1. Vincent
2. Van Gogh
3. painting
4. landscape
What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is only one.)

'...the first full-size canvas by Van Gogh discovered since 1928.'

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1. full-size
2. 1928
3. Van Gogh
4. canvas
What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is only one.)

'...a once-in-a-lifetime experience...'

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1. once
2. once-in-a-lifetime
3. lifetime
4. experience
What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is only one.)

'...new research techniques after a two-year investigation,'

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1. research
2. techniques
3. two-year
4. investigation
What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is only one.)

'...a painting that has been lost for more than 100 years'.

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1. painting
2. lost
3. 100
4. years
What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is only one.)

'low-income families who have a difficult time making ends meet'

(Source: http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-3/value.htm)
1. income
2. families
3. time
4. ends
What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is only one.)

'a high correlation between higher education and cultural and family values'

(Source: http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-3/value.htm)
1. correlation
2. education
3. family
4. values
What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is only one.)

'a more optimistic view of their past and future personal progress'

(Source: http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-3/value.htm)
1. view
2. past
3. future
4. progress
What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is only one.)

'the earnings differential between college and high school graduates'

(Source: http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-3/value.htm)
1. earnings
2. differential
3. college
4. school
What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is only one.)

'the value of higher education to both the individual and to society.'

(Source: http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-3/value.htm)
1. value
2. education
3. individual
4. society
What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is only one.)

'considerable support for the notion that the rate of return on investment in higher education'

(Source: http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-3/value.htm)
1. support
2. notion
3. rate
4. return
5. investment
6. education
What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is only one.)

'The complex and expensive solutions suggested by members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council as a way of fighting the serious problem of investment corruption...'

(Source: http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-3/value.htm)
1. complicated
2. solutions
3. members
4. Hong Kong
5. Council
6. fighting
7. problem
8. investment
9. corruption