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	Compound Nouns Language Arts Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or Reading or Writing Teaching Idea
		This is a great activity to introduce your students to nouns, especially compound nouns.
		I try to throw in a few compound nouns that students might not be familiar with.
		After all the students have found their respective halves, write all the compound nouns on the board and have the students define them.
	www.lessonplanspage.com /LACompoundNounsFunActivityIdea57.htm (177 words)

	Encyclopedia: Compound verb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Compounds that contain affixes, such as house-build(er) and single-mind(ed)(ness), as well as adjective-adjective compounds and verb-verb compounds, such as blue-green and freeze-dry, are often hyphenated.
		In the case of verb+noun compounds, the noun may be either the subject (grammar) or the object of the verb.
		Compound verbs composed of a noun and verb are comparatively rare, and the noun is generally not the direct object of the verb.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Compound-verb (1982 words)

	Compound (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Obviously, an endocentric compound tends to be of the same part of speech (word class) as its head.
		English prefers another type of verb-noun compounds, in which an argument of the verb is incorporated into the verb, which is then usually turned into a gerund, such as breastfeeding, finger-pointing, etc. The noun is usually an instrumental complement.
		Compound prepositions formed by prepositions and nouns are common in English and the Romance languages (consider English on top of, Spanish encima de, etc.).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Compound_noun_and_adjective (810 words)

	Compound Words
		A compound noun or adjective consisting of a short verb plus a word that normally functions as a preposition or an adverb is usually solid, unless a hyphen is needed for readability.
		A compound adjective that follows the noun is ordinarily not hyphenated unless it is shown with a hyphen in the dictionary.
		A compound adjective that is a foreign language phrase is not hyphenated unless it is hyphenated in the original language.
	www.epri.com /corporate/discover_epri/epri_facts/reportspecs/style3.html (627 words)

	Slovak Declension
		Slovak nouns ending in -y / -ý / -i / -í and whose form is identical with that of the corresponding adjective (or participle), i.
		- the nouns pasca, liace (pl), veèera, rozopra, konopa and dvere
		Slovak nouns ending in -ie and whose form is identical with that of the corresponding adjective (or participle), i.
	www.angelfire.com /sk3/quality/Slovak_declension.html (9187 words)

	Compound noun and adjective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Compound nouns are composed of two or more shorter words which together form a new morpheme.
		Open compounds usually consist of components which are not readily combinable in either solid or hyphenated forms, because they would either look strange in such a combination, or are of a recent coinage and have had not sufficient time to be established in any other than open form.
		The first component in a compound noun is the modifier[?], because it modifies or limits the meaning of the second component.
	www.eurofreehost.com /co/Compound_noun_and_adjective.html (445 words)

	Learn English - Grammar - Compound Nouns
		A compound noun is a noun that is made up of two or more words.
		Most compound nouns in English are formed by nouns modified by other nouns or adjectives.
		The words tooth and paste are each nouns in their own right, but if you join them together they form a new word - toothpaste.
	www.learnenglish.de /grammar/nouncompound.htm (154 words)

	2003 ESL in Canada Summer Camp Text - Intermediate word use - Parts of Speech - Nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Compound nouns often have a meaning that is different from the two separate words.
		greenhouse) and an adjective with a noun (e.g.
		In compound nouns, the stress usually falls on the first syllable: a 'greenhouse = place where we grow plants (compound noun) a green 'house = house painted green (adjective and noun) a 'bluebird = type of bird (compound noun) a blue 'bird = any bird with blue feathers (adjective and noun)
	www.eslincanada.ca /nouns.html (819 words)

	Compound Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If you were diagramming a sentence with a compound word, you would probably keep the words together, on the same horizontal line.
		To create the possessive of pluralized and compounded forms, a writer is wise to avoid the apostrophe -s form and use an "of" phrase (the "post genitive") instead: the meeting of the daughters-in-law, the schedule of half-moons.
		One of the most difficult decisions to make about possessives and plurals of compound words occurs when you can't decide whether the first noun in a compound structure is acting as a noun that ought to be showing possession or as what is called an attributive noun, essentially an adjective.
	webster.commnet.edu /grammar/compounds.htm (1426 words)

	PLURALS OF COMPOUND NOUNS. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Words like doghouse, ballpark, and icemaker are compounds; they have primary stress on the first syllable or front element, tertiary stress on the second syllable or rear element.
		If the compound ends in -ful (basketful, armful, cupful), the plurals usually add -s to the end of -ful (basketfuls, armfuls, cupfuls), although basketsful, armsful, and cupsful do sometimes occur.
		Advocate general, attorney general, and mother superior have the primary stress on the second element and so are not true compounds, despite a superficial resemblance; hence it is not surprising that they usually form their plurals by adding -s to the first element—the noun—to make the plural: advocates general, attorneys general, mothers superior.
	www.bartleby.com /68/49/4649.html (256 words)

	Style guide topic - compound nouns.
		Compound nouns evolve naturally from two existing words, to hyphen-words, to onewords.
		If a compound noun shows up as two words, hyphenated word, or as a solid word in the different locations, then all we are looking at is the word in a different stage of evolution in each location.
		In English, there is a trend for compound nouns to be written as a single word, "as soon as acceptance warrants their being considered permanent compounds", to quote the Chicago Manual of Style (14th Edition, 6.38).
	mail.gnome.org /archives/gnome-doc-list/2001-December/msg00075.html (551 words)

	Nouns
		A proper noun is the name or title of a particular person, place, thing or idea; it always begins with a capital letter.
		A third kind of compound noun consists of two words often used together even though they are not joined.
		A fourth kind of compound noun is a proper name that consists of more than one word.
	www.danaelayne.com /Nouns.htm (400 words)

	Ulster-Scots Agency
		Note: This ‘rule’ breaks down when the two nouns used together in a noun phrase become familiarly associated together to give a compound noun such as Kirk Session (rather than *Session o tha Kirk).
		When we mean a ‘teapot’ rather than a ‘pot of tea’, we use the compound noun taypot or tippet as a single word to describe the object needed when we decide to wat (i.e.
		A church organ, referred to derogatively as a kist or ‘chest’ of whistles in Ulster-Scots, is written as a compound noun in the hyphenated form kist-o-whussles, rather than as a single word, and so it is also with peep-o-day (‘dawn’).
	www.ulsterscotsagency.com /26possessiveandcompoundnouns.asp (410 words)

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		Thus she includes draw-bridge and pick-pocket as syntactically identical V N compounds: the fact that a draw-bridge is a bridge while a pick-pocket is certainly not a pocket is to her insignificant.
		Whether the verb came etymologically from the noun or vice versa is not at issue; the crucial datum is the perception of (at least some) present-day speakers that the verb is basic and the noun derived from it.
		Lieber's constraint requiring that the non-head element's valences be satisfied within the compound stars all the cases with transitive verbs, and they would also by starred, with the intransitive verb cases, by her requirement that any non-object noun compounded with a verb "must be interpretable as a semantic argument" of the verb, "i.e.
	www.sil.org /%7Etuggyd/Scarecrow/SCARECRO.htm (6368 words)

	Lessons 16-20 - Parts of Speech - Nouns
		Compound nouns are made up of more than one word as dining room, Bill of Rights, Jeff Hansen, and home run.
		Compound nouns can also be concrete or abstract.
		Mass nouns are not countable as gasoline, water or dirt.
	www.dailygrammar.com /016to020.shtml (685 words)

	Plural and Possessive
		The plural form of a noun indicates simply that there are more than one of the person or thing in question.
		Nouns with these letters at the end call for an "es" in the plural form.
		Some nouns ending in o are pluralized with an "s," while others call for "es." These words must be memorized, because there is no simple rule to explain the differences.
	www.meredith.edu /grammar/plural.htm (1149 words)

	German II - Compound Nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nouns are combined in German to form a single compound noun, which is a very common way to form new words.
		For a compound noun, the gender and plural are determined by the final noun in the compound.
		Compound nouns can also be formed with parts of speech other than two nouns, for example, with verbs or adjectives.
	www.hodgemony.com /german/pages/compound_nouns.htm (250 words)

	Stufun.com: Grammar: Singular/Plural: How to form Plurals: Free Download sample exercise. Picture Dictionary. Mumbai ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To a singular noun ending in 'y', 'es' is added if there is a consonant before 'y' and the letter 'y' is replaced with the letter i.
		In the case of compound nouns, 's' is added to the principal word.
		To singular nouns ending in f or fe, the 'f' / 'fe' is replaced with 'v' and es is added to the noun.
	www.stufun.com /singularplural/formplural.php3 (206 words)

	Spanish Grammar: plural forms of nouns
		If a noun ends in -z, add -es and change the z to c.
		When the plural refers to two or more nouns of different genders, the masculine plural is used.
		A few nouns are "compound nouns," that is, they are formed by combining two words into one.
	www.studyspanish.com /lessons/plnoun.htm (260 words)

	Motivation in English Compound Nouns
		A compound is a unit consisting of two or more bases.(Quirk,1973) "Semantically compounds can be seen to be isolated from ordinary syntactic constructions by having a meaning which may be related to but can not simply be inferred from the meaning of its parts." nouns.
		A possible subclassification of compound nouns could be made by the part of speech of each bases.
		In English there are words termed "neo-classical compounds" which take on the shape of a simple word but are morphologically compounds in their own right.
	www.lforums.com /html/11/1105/560.htm (1686 words)

	Dutch grammar > nouns and articles > compound nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A compound noun is a noun that is made up of two or more words that can also occur independently, e.g.
		In other words: Whether a compound noun is a de- or het-noun is determined by the last word in the compound.
		The compound noun can consist of two independent nouns, but it can also consist of an adjective and a noun, an adverb and a noun, or a verb and a noun.
	www.dutchgrammar.com /nounsandarticles/8.html (133 words)

	Danish for English Speakers: Gender
		Nouns which are unchanged in the plural are almost always t-words and vice versa.
		Compound nouns which finish with a t-word are t-words.
		Nouns imported from English or another language can be t-words if they are indentified with a Danish t-word.
	www.statsci.org /dansk/gender.html (448 words)

	Selectional classes and hyponymy in an electronic dictionary
		The number of compound lexemes occuring in corpora largely exceeds one million and new compounds are always formed, which makes it impossible to encode all occuring compound nouns manually.
		These first tests have shown that semantic patterns can be detected in large compound noun corpora, which could be exploited for an automatic or semi-automatic analysis, making use of a large, one million words corpus of compounds consisting of two nouns.
		Sense disambiguation of compounds and their parts corresponding to these classes includes the choice of the appropriate class for a lexeme in a text, when it has several semantic categories in the lexicon entry.
	www.cis.uni-muenchen.de /people/langer/veroeffentlichungen/diss_stefan_langer.html (830 words)

	Nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Noun Phrase, frequently a noun accompanied by modifiers, is a group of related words acting as a noun: the oil depletion allowance; the abnormal, hideously enlarged nose.
		Abstract nouns are sometimes troublesome for non-native writers because they can appear with determiners or without: "Peace settled over the countryside." "The skirmish disrupted the peace that had settled over the countryside." See the section on Plurals for additional help with collective nouns, words that can be singular or plural, depending on context.
		Nouns in the subject and object role are identical in form; nouns that show the possessive, however, take a different form.
	webster.commnet.edu /grammar/nouns.htm (994 words)

	English Grammar and Writing : English language courses, English Grammar Online
		Compound nouns often have a meaning that is different from the two separate words.
		Stress is important in pronunciation, as it distinguishes between a compound noun (e.g.
		greenhouse) and an adjective with a noun (e.g.
	www.edufind.com /english/grammar/NOUNS4.cfm (256 words)

	Noun Plurals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nouns ending in f (or fe), change the f to v and add es (with many exceptions): calves, knives, leaves, lives, selves, thieves, wives, wolves (exceptions: cliffs, roofs, safes).
		Compound nouns written as one word normally pluralize the last word: pickpockets, salesmen, spoonfuls, stepmothers.
		A few irregular nouns are identical with their plurals: deer, fish (or fishes), moose, series, sheep, species.
	www.jimloy.com /language/plurals.htm (386 words)

	Crickweb \| KS2 Literacy
		The collective noun words are simply dragged to their matching partner on the blue picture cards.
		This compound words matching application is a simple to use word level exercise.
		The coloured words are simply dragged to their correct place on the grey label to form a single closed compound word with the existing word on the label.
	www.crickweb.co.uk /ks2literacy.html (809 words)

	Compound Words
		The Chicago Manual of Style says that "hyphenated and open compounds are regularly made plural by the addition of the plural inflection to the element that is subject to the change in number" and gives as examples "fathers-in-law," "sergeants-in-arms," "doctors of philosophy," "and courts-martial" (196).
		To create the possessive of pluralized and compounded forms, a writer is wise to avoid the apostrophe -s form and use an "of" phrase (the "post genitive") instead: the meeting of the daughters-in-law, the schedule of half-moons.
		One of the most difficult decisions to make about possessives and plurals of compound words occurs when you can't decide whether the first noun in a compound structure is acting as a noun that ought to be showing possession or as what is called an attributive noun, essentially an adjective.
	grammar.ccc.commnet.edu /grammar/compounds.htm (1426 words)

	Parts of Speech: Nouns: Prime-Time Players — FactMonster.com
		Nouns come in these varieties: common nouns, proper nouns, compound nouns, and collective nouns.
		Compound nouns are two or more nouns that function as a single unit.
		A compound noun can be two individual words, words joined by a hyphen, or two words combined.
	www.factmonster.com /cig/grammar-style/nouns-prime-time-players.html (927 words)

	7 Stress patterns in compound nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Compounds often have a characteristic stress pattern (accent pattern).
		The compound movie star is pronounced MOVIEstar (where capital letters indicate the location of the heaviest accent), not movieSTAR; the compound bathroom is pronounced BATHroom, not bathROOM.
		These inconsistencies underline the fact that the category of compounds is a grammatical one, and that, although there is a tendency for it to be phonetically marked in a certain way, such marking is not perfectly regular.
	coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de /Classes/Summer96/Morphsem/skoelsch/node7.html (223 words)

	Unit Six - From Verbs to Nouns
		In some foreign languages these nouns may require an article, so it is important to treat them as you would regular nouns in that language.
		These long strings of words (clauses and phrases) can always be replaced by another simple noun or by a pronoun, which further emphasizes their status as a noun.
		These groups of words are serving a noun function, but we will look at them in more detail to discover their other dimensions when we discuss relative clauses in a later unit.
	www.trentu.ca /academicskills/unit6.htm (952 words)

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