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	Compound noun and adjective: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		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.
		A modifier thus may indicate the purpose the noun stands for, the material of which it is made, or the way it works, is designed or constructed, as in "sand castle", "roundhouse", "workbench" or "particle-board".
	www.encyclopedian.com /co/Compound-noun-and-adjective.html (573 words)

	The Parts of Speech
		Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.
		In fact, the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next.
		In this example, "walk" is a noun, which is part of a prepositional phrase describing where the mail carrier stood.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/partsp.html (311 words)

	Glossary of Grammatical Terms
		The subjective case is for a noun (or pronoun) that is the subject of a verb.
		The objective case is for a noun (or pronoun) that is either the direct object or indirect object of a verb or the object of a preposition.
		A countable noun is a noun with both a singular and a plural form.
	www.grammar-monster.com /grammarlessons/glossary/cic.htm (1665 words)

	d. Word Compounding. 8. Word Formation. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
		Compound adjectives formed with an adverb plus an adjective or a participle are often hyphenated when they occur before the noun they modify: a well-known actor, an ill-advised move, best-loved poems, a much-improved situation, the so-called cure.
		Compound adjectives formed with a noun, adjective, or adverb and a present participle are hyphenated when the compound precedes the noun it modifies: a bone-chilling tale, two good-looking sons, long-lasting friendship.
		Nouns or adjectives consisting of a short verb combined with a preposition are either hyphenated or written solid depending on current usage.
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	Compound (linguistics) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In French, compound nouns are often formed by left-hand heads with prepositional components inserted before the modifier, as in chemin-de-fer ("railway", lit.
		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.).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Compound_noun_and_adjective (801 words)

	Compound Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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)

	Top40-Charts.com - 40 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 25 Countries
		Compound verbs are very common in some languages, such as the northern Indo-Aryan languages Hindi-Urdu and Panjabi where as many as 20% of verb forms in running text are compound.
		In the Russian language compounding is a common type of word formation, and several types of compounds exist, both in terms of compounded parts of speech and of the way of the formation of a compound.
		Compound adjectives may be formed either per se, e.g., "belo-rozovy" 'white-pink' or as a result of compounding during the derivation of an adjective from a multiword term: ÐÐ°Ð¼ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾Ð¾ÑÑÑÐ¾Ð²ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¿ÐµÐºÑ /kamenËoËstrovskÊ²ij prospÊ²ekt/ 'Stone Island Avenue', a street in St.Petersburg.
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	Compound noun and adjective - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Compound nouns as a rule started out as adjectives or modifiers combined with nouns, such as "flboard" originating from "fl board"; "skyscraper" (sky modifying scraper - there are many types of scraper, this one metaphorically scraping the sky); "highlight" (high being adjective/modifier to light [meaning colour]); "temperance society" (temperance modifying society).
		The left-hand component in a compound noun is the modifier, because it modifies or limits the meaning of the right-hand component.
		A further aspect of compound nouns is that of the meaning being arrived at by paraphrasing the two morphemes through prepositions.
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	Adjective Information
		Similarly, possessive adjectives, such as his or her, are sometimes called determinative possessive pronouns, and demonstrative adjectives, such as this or that, determinative demonstratives.
		Nouns which modify other nouns are sometimes called modifying nouns, nouns used adjectivally, or just part of a compound noun (like the word ice in ice cream).
		In English, an adjectival phrase may occur as a postmodifier to a noun (a bin full of toys), or as a predicate to a verb (the bin is full of toys).
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Adjective (1755 words)

	:: noun :: related - ( abstract adjective as verb compound collective reptile ...
		noun) or group of words used to name or identify any of a class of persons, places, or things (common
		noun), or a particular one of these (proper
		abstract adjective as verb compound collective reptile amphibian
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	What Is An Adjective?
		Here the possessive adjective ``your'' is used to modify the noun phrase ``phone number''; the entire noun phrase ``your phone number'' is a subject complement.
		In this example, the possessive adjective ``his'' modifies the noun phrase ``favourite type of bread'' and the entire noun phrase ``his favourite type of bread'' is the direct object of the verb ``sold.''
		Here the possessive adjective ``their'' modifies ``parents'' and the noun phrase ``their parents'' is the object of the preposition ``by.'' Note that the possessive pronoun form ``theirs'' is not used to modify nouns or noun phrases.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/adjectve.html (925 words)

	Compound Noun Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Compound fracture: The role of semantic transparency and morphological headedness.
		Compound Comprehension in Isolation and in Context: The Contribution of Conceptual and Discourse Knowledge to the Comprehension of German Novel Noun-Noun Compounds.
		Compound noun seqmentation based on lexical data extracted from corpus.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /~do242/allcompounds.p.html (2147 words)

	Search Results for "Compound noun and adjective"
		...Spell the noun as two words and put the primary stress on yard; spell the compound adjective as one word, and pronounce it either with primary stress on back or with...
		Adjectives are distinguished chiefly by their suffixes, such...
		The two-word phrase (adjective modifying noun) is not a compound: You can use this gadget...
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	What Is An Adjective?
		Here the possessive adjective ``her'' modifies the noun ``homeland'' and the noun phrase ``her homeland'' is the object of the preposition ``to.'' Note also that the form ``hers'' is not used to modify nouns or noun phrases.
		In this sentence, the possessive adjective ``its'' modifies ``ball'' and the noun phrase ``its ball'' is the object of the verb ``chased.'' Note that ``its'' is the possessive adjective and ``it's'' is a contraction for ``it is.''
		Note that the relationship between a demonstrative adjective and a demonstrative pronoun is similar to the relationship between a possessive adjective and a possessive pronoun, or to that between a interrogative adjective and an interrogative pronoun.
	www.arts.uottawa.ca /writcent/hypergrammar/adjectve.html (925 words)

	Learn English - Grammar - Compound Nouns
		A compound noun is a noun that is made up of two or more words.
		The word fl is an adjective and board is a noun, but if you join them together they form a new word - flboard.
		In both these example the first word modifies or describes the second word, telling us what kind of object or person it is, or what its purpose is. And the second part identifies the object or person in question.
	www.learnenglish.de /grammar/nouncompound.htm (154 words)

	Adverb adjective noun verb, - Commonly Misused Words
		The noun is treated as a plural and the verb form is plural.
		Adjectives and adverbs are describing words; the former describes a noun or pronoun; the latter, a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
		The eight classifications are noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
	e377.com /?q=adverb-adjective-noun-verb (1006 words)

	Hyphens
		The tendency is for compounds to begin life as two-word or hyphenated terms, and when they have become acceptable in general usage and gotten into dictionaries, they lose the hyphen and are spelled solid, as one word.
		Compounds formed with noun + present participle (-ing form of the verb) or adjective + past participle (-ed form of the verb) are hyphenated before the noun: thirst-quenching drink, rain-causing clouds, street-vending license, risk-based securities, straight-sided fences, fast-paced dialogue
		Compound adjectives with well-, ill-, better-, best-, little-, lesser-, etc., are hyphenated when they precede the noun, unless the compound itself is also modified: little-known fact, best-seller list, well-intentioned acts, ill-favored man, but She is well known; very best tasting cake
	www.nyu.edu /classes/copyXediting/Hyphens.html (1450 words)

	The Markirya Poem
		Adjectives in -a have plural forms in -ë, and the adjectival participle might have been excepted to behave in the same way, changing its ending to -lë when it describes a plural noun.
		It seems that nouns ending in a consonant, that normally form their plurals in -i (eleni "stars"), also use this plural ending as a connecting vowel before case endings beginning in a consonant (since **elenllor would not be a possible word).
		atalantië "ruinous, downfallen", pl. of the adjective atalantëa.
	www.uib.no /people/hnohf/markirya.htm (3535 words)

	Lessons 291-295 -- Compound/Complex Sentences
		The choices are independent clause, noun clause, adjective clause or adverb clause.
		The following sentences are either a simple sentence, a compound sentence, a complex sentence or a compound/complex sentence.
		The bola is a rope which is used to catch animals; it has weights on the end of it.
	www.dailygrammar.com /291to295.shtml (1419 words)

	Compound Adjectives
		A compound adjective is formed when two or more adjectives work together to modify the same noun.
		No hyphen is required because it is already clear that the adverb modifies the adjective rather than the subsequent noun.
		Furthermore, you should not place a hyphen in a compound adjective if the adjectives are capitalized, such as when they are part of a title.
	www.kentlaw.edu /academics/lrw/grinker/LwtaCompound_Adjectives.htm (250 words)

	SDTV: Episode Resources - English Grammar
		Another way to think of a common noun is that it's just one of a class of things (e.g., bat).
		Compound nouns can be two separate words (e.g., bicycle trail), connected by a hyphen (e.g., twenty-three), or just one big word (e.g., classroom).
		noun's number— Refers to whether a noun is singular or plural.
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	Hyphens \| Punctuation Rules
		Generally, hyphenate between two or more adjectives when they come before a noun and act as a single idea.
		Brightly is an adverb describing lit, not an adjective.
		When adverbs other than ly adverbs are used as compound words in front of a noun, hyphenate.
	www.grammarbook.com /punctuation/hyphens.asp (503 words)

	Grammar of Interlingua
		Since other words can have the same endings, these do not identify adjectives, which can only be spotted by the function they perform in a sentence or at times by a suffix which happens to occur with no other part of speech.
		Adjectives preceding a noun tend to suggest that what they express is an essential feature of the noun concept and not merely a feature distinguishing the present representative of the noun concept from others.
		The noun it represents may either be one expressed in the preceding passage or it may be a more or less definite notion in the mind of the speaker.
	members.optus.net /~ado_hall/interlingua/gi/parts_of_speech/adjective.html (1084 words)

	Feminine Nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to them, close compounds are hyphenated nouns, which isn't very helpful as there is a great confusion in Gaelic as to which words are and aren't hyphenated.
		The general rule is that the second noun is always in the genitive and undergoes article lenition when appropriate while the first noun is regularly declined.
		One of the things to bear in mind is that in a close compound, the second noun behaves much like an adjective, so after a feminine noun, there is lenition in the nominative and dative.
	www.akerbeltz.org /beagangaidhlig/gramar/grammar_casesfem.htm (2070 words)

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