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What Is A Compound Noun

The document defines and provides examples of different types of compound nouns, including spaced, hyphenated, and closed compound nouns formed from combinations of nouns, verbs, prepositions and other parts of speech.

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What Is A Compound Noun

The document defines and provides examples of different types of compound nouns, including spaced, hyphenated, and closed compound nouns formed from combinations of nouns, verbs, prepositions and other parts of speech.

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What Is a Compound Noun?

• By-product
• Mother-in-law
• Passer-by
A compound noun is a noun that is formed by a combination of more than
one part of speech. Compound nouns are of three main types: Open or
spaced compound nouns, hyphenated compound nouns and closed or solid Closed or Solid Compound Nouns
compound nouns.
A closed or solid compound noun is one in which the two words do not
have any spaces or hyphens separating them. They are usually considered
Definition of a Compound Noun
as a single word.
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a compound noun is defined as ‘a
For example:
noun that is made up of two or more different words, for example, “cake
shop”, “French fries”, “high-flyer”, or “schoolteacher”.’ The Oxford
• Sunflower
Learners’ Dictionary provides a similar definition. It defines a compound
• Classroom
noun as ‘a noun, an adjective or a verb made of two or more words or
• Rainfall
parts of words, written as one or more words, or joined by a hyphen.
Travel agent, dark-haired and bathroom are all compound nouns.’
Noun + Noun
Types of Compound Nouns with Examples
Spaced or Open Compound Noun

A spaced or open compound noun is one in which there is a space between the
two words which form the compound noun.

For example:

• Cricket bat

• Fast food

• Flower shop

Hyphenated Compound Nouns

A hyphenated compound noun is one in which the two words are


separated with the use of a hyphen.

For example:
Noun + Verb Noun + Preposition + Noun/Noun + Prepositional Phrase

Preposition + Verb

Noun + Gerund
Verb + Preposition Adjective + Verb

Adjective + Noun Check Your Knowledge of Compound Nouns


Identify the compound nouns in the following sentences:

1. He is such a showoff.
2. What do you know about Native Americans?
3. The teacher wrote down all the sentences on the blackboard.
4. The Prime Minister will be meeting the US President tomorrow.
5. That is the silver lining I was talking to you about.
6. The security guard got into trouble as he misplaced the walkie- talkie.
7. My uncle had a heart attack.
8. Sunsets are always a pleasant sight.
9. My father asked my brother to get a haircut before the wedding.
10. I heard that Sandra has a swimming pool inside her house.

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