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I have the following Japanese sentence:

> 身につけている **のが** 、病院で着せられる検査服のようなものだから仕方ないのかもしれないが、どう見てもここは病院なんかじゃない。

and I was wondering if the bolded のが nominalizes the 身につけている before it, as
[Darius says](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/11568/26406) that

> "...Basically, all the 〜の does is make a verb act like a noun, and then
> syntactically-speaking, that noun-like thing can fit into any spot a noun
> would normally go, and that spot will already be marked with が, の, or some
> other case particle" (Darius).

But I'm unable to wrap my head around what the nominalization of 身につけている is,
which in turn makes me doubt the のが's ability to nominalize 身につけている in the
above sentence.

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syntax particle-の particle-が nominalization
Is the following のが a nominalizing のが?
In this case, you can forget nominalization. One way to interpret this
sentence is to think of this の as a vague noun meaning "thing" or "one". Then
身につけているの on its own can mean "the thing which I'm wearing" rather than "(the
act of) wearing".

> 身につけているのは検査服だ。  
>  What I'm wearing is a hospital gown.

But this construction has a broader use and has a specific name called [cleft
sentence](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/19208/5010).

> 検査服を身につけている。  
>  I'm wearing a hospital gown.
>
> 身につけているのは検査服だ。  
>  It's a hospital gown that I'm wearing.

Technically speaking, this の is still a kind of noun and 身につけている is a kind of
relative clause. Note that のが can be used instead of のは since it's in a
subordinate clause (～だから).
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