The three ways are:
1. open examples: light bulb, high school, Golf ball, candy cane
2. closed examples: mailbox, backdrop, highway
3. hyphenated examples: able-bodied, fact-finding, hand-picked
Compound words can be written with a space between the words, with a hyphen between the words and with no space between the words.
Yes, twenty-three is a compound word.
schoolwork is a compound word
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Graphically, components of a compound are usually jointly written or hyphenated while words in a word combination are always separately written.
Compound nouns can be written: As one word: policeman As a hyphenated word: six-pack As two separate words: fast ball
Compound words can be written with a space between the words, with a hyphen between the words and with no space between the words.
It can be written a couple of ways: Seventy three hundredths, or Point seven three
Yes, twenty-three is a compound word.
"Natural disaster" is actually two separate words. It is never written as a single word, so it is not a compound word. A compound word is two words that are written together to form a single word.
schoolwork is a compound word
'Forgetting' is a closed compound word, as it is formed by combining two complete words, for + getting. It is a closed compound word as it is written as a single word without a hyphen.
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No, it's a phrase. In order to be a compound word, it would have to be written drinking-glasses or drinkingglasses.
Graphically, components of a compound are usually jointly written or hyphenated while words in a word combination are always separately written.
Three types of compound words with examples containing "eye": Open compound word: black eye Close compound word: eyewitness Hyphenated compound word: one-eyed-king