A compound noun is a noun formed by joining two or more words together. There are three forms of compound nouns: open/spaced with a space between words, hyphenated with a hyphen, and closed/solid with no space or hyphen. Compound nouns can be formed by combining a noun with a noun, a verb with a noun, or an adjective with a noun. It is important to understand compound nouns as each one acts as a single linguistic unit.

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COMPOUND NOUNS
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COMPOUND NOUNS
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• 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. (Duguran,2017)

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Forms of compound nouns
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• It is a noun that is made with two or more words. There are three
forms for compound nouns: open or spaced - space between words
(tennis shoe) hyphenated - hyphen between words (six-pack) closed
or solid - no space or hyphen between words (bedroom)
• (Duarte,2013)

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What is a compound?
• In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem.
Compounding or composition is the process of word formation that creates compound lexemes (the other word-
formation process' being derivation). That is, in familiar terms, compounding occurs when two or more words are
joined to make one longer word. The meaning of the compound may be very different from the meanings of its
components in isolation. Usually, it is a noun with one or more preceding noun adjuncts.
• Formation of compounds Agglutinative languages tend to create very long words with derivational morphemes.
Compounds may or may not require the use of derivational morphemes also. In Finnish, although there is
theoretically no limit to the length of compound words, words consisting of more than three components are rare.
Compounds can be rather long when translating technical documents from English to some other language,
since the lengths of the words are theoretically unlimited, especially in chemical terminology.
• (Mikaela,2015)
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How are compound nouns formed?
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A compound noun is formed by two
individual words OR three occasionally
Formation of compound nouns
• Washing machine, Greenhouse, Dining – table,
Bus stop, Swimming pool, Sunrise, Sunset,
Blackboard, Whiteboard, Mother – in – law,
Output, Check – out, Check-in, Haircut, Hotspot,
Smartphone, Hardware, Long lasting, Underline,
Underground, Shutdown, Input, Overthrow
• One part of a compound often forms the basis for
a number of compound nouns e.g postman, post
office or toothpaste, toothache (Melibea,2010)
• Compound nouns are formed by :
• Noun + noun: lunchtime, boyfriend, milkman,
firefighter, hatrack, heartache.
• Verb + noun: jailbreak, haircut, runtime,
turntable, sweatshirt, buzzkill.
• Adjective + noun: smartphone, bluebird,
redhead, greenhouse.

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NOTE:
• It is important to understand and recognize compound nouns.
• Each compound noun acts as a single unit and can be modified by adjectives
and other nouns (Tere,2014)
• A compound noun does not have to be modified by a noun.

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REFERENCE LIST
• Duarte,R.(2013).Compound nouns. https://www.slideshare.net/RainhaDuarte/compound-nouns-
25249967?from_search=1
• Dugura,M,E.(2017). Collective and compound
nouns.https://www.slideshare.net/MaryjoyElynethDuguran/collective-and-compound-nouns-eng-
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• Melibea, C, Y. (2010). Compound Nouns. https://www.slideshare.net/scuestacalvo/compound-nouns-
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• Mikaela, K. (2015). Compound nouns. https://www.slideshare.net/100001574033842/compound-nouns-
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• Tere,G, F. (2014). Coumpound Nouns. https://www.slideshare.net/tgfernandez/compound-nouns-
39702597?from_search=0

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