#compound noun

[britishyeen]

German really has a compound noun for everything 😭

[jhsharman]

"Tie Score"

boy friend, boyfriend

Stripes are bigger than The Beatles.

[animeomelette]

Compound nouns

It's always really interesting to me seeing people fascinated by how German can hypothetically have infinitely long words (because of how compound nouns are written in German) when English has essentially the same feature but with spaces conventionally placed between most components of compounds in writing.

There's nothing significantly ungrammatical about "Railway Locomotive Insurance Providers Association headquarters building collapse investigation committee meeting minutes transcription error", but compounds over a certain length are unlikely to appear outside of technical contexts and even then once they become sufficiently unwieldy they will probably be broken up, or abbreviated to an acronym if repeated usage is necessary. This will apply in any language with compounds as a grammatical feature, as speaking a different language or being from a different cultural background doesn't negate the basic need for things to be easily legible and reasonably concise.

I do wonder what the longest compound one could actually create in English while still conveying a coherent and comprehensible meaning would be (although both points are inevitably subjective), and it would be interesting to see how different languages would compare in that regard.

PS: This is just a shower thought, not an academic essay, I might be talking out of my bum about several things here.

[jhsharman]

"Looks Aren't Everything"

I guess there is a subtle difference when the first sentence gets clipped into two. If "deadly weapon" were in quotation marks, the question mark would be outside them. And this is a story framed around beach balls striking Veronica's butt.

Aren't - Weren't. Beachballs - Beach balls

Later "blue blooded" gets hyphenated in post and police are referred to as "the fuzz".

[wintarti]

The Type of Adjective Structure With Noun Modifiers and Preposition

The Type of Adjective Structure With Noun Modifiers and Preposition

Type of Adjective Structure With Noun, compound Noun, Adverbs as Noun Modifiers, Expression of Quantity, Possessive Patterns, and Preposition. This writing discusses the adjective structure is with noun and preposition. Nouns as Adjectives and Compound Nouns No. 1 – 5 1. What is a bomb designed to explode at some time after being dropped or placed in position? 2. What is a device that that tells…

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[charissecbustamante-blog]

Advanced English Grammar July 14, 2017

COLLECTIVE NOUN AND COMPOUND NOUN

Collective Noun

refers to groups of people, animals and things.

Collective noun can be in singular or plural form depending on the context of the sentence.

They are usually singular because they focus on the individual elements acting together as one unit.

They can also be plural. When the sentence is highlighting the individuals among the group, the noun is plural.

Compound Noun

contains two or more words which join together to make a single noun.

Compound noun are expressed in three ways:

closed form - has two words that have melded together to make one word.

hyphenated form - are used internally in some compound words to separate the words forming compound word.

[megha-chopra]

Noun

  There are four kinds of noun:

Common noun: table, cat, girl

Proper noun: China, John, Paris

Abstract noun: fear, happiness, courage

Collective noun: team, flock, bundle

  A Noun can be:

  * The subject of a verb: John came.

* The object of a verb: I met John.

*  The object of a preposition: I gave it to John.

* Masculine: boy, man, bull, uncle etc.

* Feminine: girl, woman, cow, aunt etc.

* Neut…

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[bartboucke-blog]

Pickpockets

In an English grammar, I found the following definition of ‘The Head of a Compound Noun’:

“An interesting property of most compounds is that they are headed.  This means that one of the words that make up the compound is syntactically dominant. In English the head is normally the item on the right hand of the compound. The syntactic properties of the head are passed on to the entire compound.”

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