NOMINALIZATION

the use of noun phrases in place of sentences or clauses:

the germination of the seed instead of the seed germinates.

Notice that the subject of the verb follows the verbal noun and ´of´.

Often this nominalized sentence is further compressed into a compound noun, with the subject noun preceding the verb noun – seed germination.

But the same thing happens to the object in a nominalized sentence (we sow the seed – the sowing of the seed – seed sowing).

In description of process, instead of saying, for example, the plant dies, we often say death of the plant occurs or takes place.