Compound

nouns

FUSION
MIX

combination

Examples:
Butter+Fly= butterfly
Spider+man= Spiderman
water+melon= Watermelon

Categories compound
nouns!
1. Open or Spaced - space between words
Eg: tennis shoe
bus stop train station
2. Hyphenated - hyphen between words
Eg: six-pack T- shirt brother in-law
3. Closed or solid - no space or hyphen between words
4. Eg: bedroom password basketball scarecrow

cases of
Compound nouns

Case 1:

Bus stop
football
Fire-flies

Case 2:

Blackboard
software
Full moon

Case 3:

Breakfast
Washing machine
Swimming pool

Case 4:

Sunrise
haircut
Train-spotting

Case 5:

Check out
Get up
Check-out

Case 6:

Mother-in-law
Alice-in-chains
Sister-in-law

Case 7:

underworld
underwear
overload

Big concept
and conclusions

Summary and feedback about Target language

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Summary and feedback about Target language

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Compound Words
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