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• The words tooth and paste are each nouns in their own right,
but if you join them together they form a new word -
toothpaste.
• The word black is an adjective and board is a noun, but if you
join them together they form a new word - blackboard.
Compound nouns can also be formed
using the following combinations of words:
Noun + Noun Toothpaste
For example:
an air motor a motor which uses air
Do as the example:
1. Smoke Detector
2. Fireman
3. Assembly Point
4. Driving license
5. Safety equipment
6. Aircraft engineer
7. Laser light
8. Welding Workshop
9. Water heater
10. Emergency exit
A room for stores
A station for express train
A size of cable
A reduction in cost
A machine which is used for washing
Shoes for safety working
Pipes made of plastic
A course for three months
A harbor for cargo ship
A track which is used for jogging
A compound word is made of two or
more words that together express a
single idea.
a. An open compound means that the
words of the compound are written
separately, (New Year’s Eve, credit card,
sea salt).
b. A hyphenated compound separates
the words by hyphen(s) (brother-in-law,
high-maintenance, force-feed).
Hyphens
A hyphen (-) is a punctuation mark used
to join the separate parts of a compound
word.
Examples:
• Incorrect: The short legged dog ran for the door. (You are saying that
the dog is short and had legs!)
• Correct: The short-legged dog ran for the door. (Now you are saying
that the dog’s legs are short.)
• Incorrect: Her red orange car was easy to see from a distance. (Was the
car red or orange?)
• Correct: Her red-orange car was easy to see from a distance. (Now you
are saying that the car was a color that was a combination or red mixed
with orange.)
Some compound adjectives formed with
1) an adverb or a noun plus a past participle
a great-looking car.