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Compound Words
Compound words are formed by two distinct words. Examples include: newspaper, anybody, eyebrow.
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Is the word ware a compound word?
No, compound words include two words put into a single word, ware is just one word. Ware does happen to be a homonym though.
Yes - a combination of the words 'wood' and 'saw'. Usually the word would be hyphenated to show it's two words combined - but over the years, it's been 'crunched' into a single word.
What are structure words how are they different foms content words support?
English words fall into two broad types: those that belong in the dictionary like ‘storm’ and ‘confabulate’, called content words, and those that belong in the grammar like ‘of’ and ‘the’, called structure words. To see the difference, here is a quotation from a Theodore Sturgeon story using made-up content words but real function words:
So on Lirht, while the decisions on the fate of the miserable Hvov were being formulated, gwik still fardled, funted and fupped.
If the same sentence were done with made-up function words, real content words it might have read:
So kel Mars, dom trelk decisions kel trelk fate mert trelk miserable slaves hiv polst formulated, deer still grazed, jumped kosp survived.
Word structure is the way a word is formatted and words support is the words that help support a topic in a sentence. This is a way to prove a point.
Is mathematics a compound noun?
No, the word mathematics is not a compound noun; mathematics is a common, abstract, aggregate noun. An aggregate noun is a word representing an indefinite number of parts; aggregate nouns have no singular form.
A compound noun is a word made of two or more individual words that form a word with a meaning of its own. There are three types of compound nouns:
- open spaced: tennis shoe, front door, paint brush, bus stop
- hyphenated: mother-in-law, fifty-five, six-pack, T-shirt
- closed: bathtub, baseball, houseboat, lunchbox
What are Compound words using word stay?
Examples of compound words that include the word 'stay' are:
- mainstay
- overstay
- stay over
Why are both compound mitre saw and sliding saw referred to as compound?
Because both ar in fact compound saws in that the blade can be angled 2 ways. -The sliding action is an added feature.
What are compound words that starts with sun?
Sunday, sunglasses, sunhat, sunshade, sunrise, sunset, sunshine, sunlight, sunflower, sunfish
What two words come from this word technique?
The words technology and unique come from the word technique.
Yes, asleep is a compound word, as both "a" and "sleep" are words themselves.
