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    Combinations of nouns to make new nouns are called COMPOUND NOUNS. They can be written in three ways: as one word: chairperson, headway, snowdrop, backstroke, bookshop, backache,. 2. As two words: credit card, cookery book,, post office, spending spree,. 3. With a hyphen: dining-room, air-conditioning, paper-clip, traffic-lights,. There are NO RULES how to write them

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    Combinations of nouns to make new nouns are called COMPOUND NOUNS. They can be written in three ways: as one word: chairperson, headway, snowdrop, backstroke, bookshop, backache,. 2. As two words: credit card, cookery book,, post office, spending spree,. 3. With a hyphen: dining-room, air-conditioning, paper-clip, traffic-lights,. There are NO RULES how to write them

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    Combinations of nouns to make new nouns are called COMPOUND NOUNS. They can be written in three ways: as one word: chairperson, headway, snowdrop, backstroke, bookshop, backache,. 2. As two words: credit card, cookery book,, post office, spending spree,. 3. With a hyphen: dining-room, air-conditioning, paper-clip, traffic-lights,. There are NO RULES how to write them

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    Combinations of nouns to make new nouns are called COMPOUND NOUNS.

    They can be written in three ways:

    1. as one word: chairperson, headway, snowdrop, backstroke, bookshop, backache, ........


    2. as two words: credit card, cookery book, , post office, spending spree,.....
    3. with a hyphen: dining-room, air-conditioning, paper-clip, traffic-lights, ......
    There are NO RULES how to write them. If you are in doubt, put a hyphen in between!

    hairdresser ___________________

    book token ____________________

    hole-punch

    bedroom ____________________

    candle wick ____________________

    high-rise / tower-block _________________

    eyebrow ___________________

    car bonnet _____________________

    fire-engine

    ____________________

    handcuffs __________________

    car boot

    living-room

    _____________________

    bookcase ____________________

    clock hand _____________________

    tea-cup

    ______________________

    headache ___________________

    roof rafter _____________________

    tin-opener

    ______________________

    countryside _________________

    horse mane ____________________

    paper-clip

    ______________________

    sunglasses ___________________

    ladder rung ____________________

    traffic-lights ______________________

    skyscraper ___________________

    fish gills

    case-book

    sunshine

    ____________________

    shopping mall __________________

    machine-gun ______________________

    handlebar _____________________

    church pulpit ___________________

    pet-lover

    dishwasher ____________________

    beehive panel __________________

    head-phones ________________________

    newsagent ______________________

    sewing machine ________________

    beehive _________________________

    stomach ache __________________

    fireworks _______________________

    wrapping paper ________________

    toothbrush ______________________

    apple core

    keyboard _______________________

    telephone directory _______________

    bookworm _______________________

    ozone layer ___________________

    birthday

    ______________________

    funeral wreath ____________________

    sunrise

    ______________________

    traffic warden ___________________

    sunset

    ______________________

    estate agent _____________________

    brand-name

    tablespoon _______________________

    luggage trolley ____________________

    hard-luck (sb.who had bad luck) _____________

    teaspoon ________________________

    pile dweller _______________________

    motorway _______________________

    detached house ___________________

    sunbathing _______________________

    cow udder ________________________

    (phone) handset ___________________

    athletics relay _____________________

    eyelashes

    teddy bear _______________________

    _______________________

    _____________________

    _____________________

    ___________________

    lipstick

    _______________________

    ear lobe

    earring

    ______________________

    pedestrian crossing ________________


    windscreen wiper __________________

    windscreen ________________________

    food poisoning _____________________

    hailstone

    shoe horn

    cupdoard __________________________

    ______________________

    _______________________

    _________________________

    air-conditioning _______________________
    air-traffic

    ________________________

    pen-name _________________________
    baby-sitter

    _________________________

    data-processing ________________________

    letter-box

    ________________________

    _________________________

    JuFa

    _______________________

    roadworks (pl) ____________________

    ________________________

    row-house

    ___________________

    ______________________

    blood donor ______________________


    flying saucer (UFO) _________________

    A star with bright


    starlight 4u!

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