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- Some of these compound nouns are written in one word (bathroom, basketball,
fingerprint), in separate words (car park) or they are written with a hyphen between
them (mother-in-law)
- generally, we form the plural of the compound nouns by adding “s” or “es” to the “base
word” (in general, this “base word” is the last word of the compound):
Bedroom- bedrooms
Bus stop- bus stops
Washing machine- washing machines
Mother-in-law- mother-in-laws