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 Comme2 millions de personnes, recevez gratuitement chaque semaine une leçon d'anglais... Cliquez ici! Recommandés: -Sites de langues -Autres sites de professeurs -Cours Assimil -Jeux gratuits -Traducteur anglais -Orientation &métiers -Tous les BTS -Nos autres sites | << Retour au forum || Aller tout en bas English only All your questions about the English language, no French allowed. Compound nouns Message de nouara posté le 26-11-2005 à 00:59:08 (S | E | F | I) Hi everybody A compound noun is formed from an adjectif and a noun, or two nouns. Compound nouns are usually written as two words, example: mother tongue. But sometimes they are jointed by a hyphen, example, baby-sitter, or written as one word, example: toothpaste. unfortunately, there is no rule for this. So let's find others compound nouns and try to give their meaning. I'll start with those giving as examples: mother tongue: 1st language baby-sitter : a person who looks after children when their parents are absent toothpaste: a substance we use to clean our teeth  Réponse: Compound nouns de dridro, postée le 26-11-2005 à 01:48:42 (S | E) Hello nouara  I propose: Tennis racket /a racket used to play tennis See you and thanks Réponse: Compound nouns de to-be-free, postée le 26-11-2005 à 02:12:18 (S | E) hello It’s certainly interesting and funny but compound nouns take big part in English grammar. So they are so many and even infinity: it’s fundamentally used in writing texts. Let me propose adding further criteri see you ------------------- Edité par traviskidd le 26-11-2005 16:17 criterion (sing.) --> criteria (pl.) Réponse: Compound nouns de traviskidd, postée le 26-11-2005 à 16:12:31 (S | E) In fact there is a rule. If it is two separate words, the first word simply describes the second -- for example, a park bench is a bench that is found in a park. If a hyphen is used, there is a more intimate relationship between the two words; the object expressed by the second word is specifically designed for compatibility with the object expressed by the first -- for example, a document-printer. A hyphen is often used when the second word expresses a verb. If the two words are joined together as one word, then in fact the object may not even be what the second word suggests -- for example, a lighthouse is not a house, and a tablecloth is not necessarily a cloth. Of course I'm not saying that there aren't exceptions to this rule, but at least you can make a good first guess as to whether there should be a space, a hyphen, or neither. Réponse: Compound nouns de laydown009, postée le 26-11-2005 à 18:06:17 (S | E) Hi, about the "compound noun" normally we can realise it by the meaning of each noun as it concerns, right ! Réponse: Compound nouns de nouara, postée le 27-11-2005 à 11:18:59 (S | E) Hi Thanks traviskidd, you elucidated the subject vey well  I want just to add that quite often, one of a compound forms the basis for a number of compound nouns. Brother / sister / mother / father -in-law Dining / sitting / waiting room Post / ticket / box office etc. see you Réponse: Compound nouns de dridro, postée le 13-01-2006 à 02:21:01 (S | E) Hi Nouara! 1-Museum entry 2-Shop window (entry is a part of museum and window is a part of shop) 3-Beach bar 4-City theatre (bar is in the beach and theatre is in the city) Thank you! Réponse: Compound nouns de bobine, postée le 13-01-2006 à 09:19:18 (S | E) Hello, I propose a curiosity shop (not a curious shop)  Thanks for your explanations and for the rules |
