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2. English compound - Wikipedia

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   Most English compound nouns that consist of more than two words can be constructed recursively by combining two words at a time. Combining "science" and "fiction", and then combining the resulting compound with "writer", for example, can construct the compound "science fiction writer" or "science-fiction writer".

3. Compound (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Also syntactically, the compound word behaves like the main word – the whole compound word (or phrase) inherits the word class and inflection rules of the main word. That is to say, since "fish" and "shape" are nouns, "starfish" and "star shape" must also be nouns, and they must take plural forms as "starfish" and "star shapes", definite ...

4. Compound modifier - Wikipedia

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   Words that function as compound adjectives may modify a noun or a noun phrase.Take the English examples heavy metal detector and heavy-metal detector.The former example contains only the bare adjective heavy to describe a device that is properly written as metal detector; the latter example contains the phrase heavy-metal, which is a compound noun that is ordinarily rendered as heavy metal ...

5. Morphology (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Rules of the first kind are inflectional rules, but those of the second kind are rules of word formation. [10] The generation of the English plural dogs from dog is an inflectional rule, and compound phrases and words like dog catcher or dishwasher are examples of word formation. Informally, word formation rules form "new" words (more ...

6. 8 Crucial Grammar Rules to Remember Before You Write Your ...

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   1. Incorrectly pluralizing a last name. This is the number one mistake we see on holiday cards. If your last name is Vincent, you can easily make it plural by adding an “s.”

7. Grammar - Wikipedia

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   A description, study, or analysis of such rules may also be known as a grammar, or as a grammar book. A reference work describing the grammar of a language is called a reference grammar or simply a grammar. A fully revealed grammar, which describes the grammatical constructions of a particular speech type in great detail is called descriptive ...

8. 3 Grammar *Rules* Millennials Break That Drive Boomers Crazy

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   As a writer, I value grammar, spelling, syntax, diction—all that jazz. But as a millennial, I’m programmed to understand that if I use a gratuitous apostrophe within a possessive “its,” I ...

9. Compound subject - Wikipedia

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   A compound subject consists of two or more individual noun phrases coordinated to form a single, longer noun phrase. Compound subjects cause many difficulties in compliance with grammatical agreement between the subject and other entities (verbs, pronouns, etc.). These issues also occur with compound noun phrases of all sorts, but the problems ...