ACAD DRILLS

NOMINALIZATION
1. Educators speculated the role of a good family
environment in the improvement of educational
achievement.
2. It is needed to analyze the library use to provide a
reliable base for the projection of needed resources.
3. Many colleges already understand that continuously
increasing tuitions are no longer possible because of
strong resistance from parents to the soaring costs of
higher education.
4. Energy plays a pivotal role in our daily activities. For this
reason, the degree of developing and civilizing a
country is measured by the amount of utilizing energy
by its citizenry.
6. Ghana has developed a Strategic National
Energy Plan (2006-2020) with issues concerning
making energy efficient, electrification,
eliminating power shortage and liberalising of
the power generation market, which will allow
independent power producers to add their
generated power to the national grid.
7. Using off-grid PV system depends on the
comparative costs, quality of service, and
accessing other energy options which are locally
available.
PASSIVIZATION
1. The Chinese discovered acupuncture
thousands of years ago.
2. We found that increasing the pressure resulted
in shear failures along grain boundaries.
3. The attorney general indicted the notorious
gangster, Al Capone, for federal income tax
evasion.
4. Six Thousand shares of Disney stock were
bought by Jenny Allen when she was only
nineteen.
5. People can view the dazzling meteor shower
from the observation tower at the planetarium.
PARAPHRASING
1. It is strange that only extraordinary men
make the discoveries, which later
appear so easy and simple. - Georg C.
Lichtenberg
2. Falsity in intellectual action is
intellectual immorality.
3. The saddest aspect of life right now is
that gathers knowledge faster than
society gathers wisdom. Isaac
Asimov
If I have seen further it is by standing
on the shoulders of Giants. Isaac
Newton

I will never be in this place without the

persistent help and guidance of my
college mentors and professors.