Ingles

Compound Nouns
A compound noun is a noun that is made with two or more words. A compound noun is usually [noun + noun] or [adjective + noun], but there are other combinations (see below). It is important to understand and recognize compound nouns. Each compound noun acts as a single unit and can be modified by adjectives and other nouns.
Compound Noun List
Here are types of compound words andexamples. The asterisks indicate types of compound words that may be compound nouns.
1. adjective/adjective - blue-green,
2. adjective/noun - blackboard, full moon
3. adjective/preposition - forthwith
4. adjective/verb - dry-cleaning, highlight
5. noun/adjective - snow white
6. noun/noun - toothpaste, football, fish tank
7. noun/preposition (adverb) - love-in, hangeron, passer-by
8. noun/verb - haircut, browbeat, rainfall
9. preposition/adjective - over-ripe
10. preposition (adverb)/noun - underground, underworld, bystander, onlooker
11. preposition/preposition - without
12. preposition (adverb)/verb - output, undercut, outlook, overthrow
13. verb/adjective - tumbledown
14. verb/noun - swimming pool, breakwater, washing machine15. verb/preposition (adverb) - takeout, check-in, drawback, lookout
16. verb/verb - freeze-dry


Types of compound nouns
Since English is a mostly analytic language, unlike most other Germanic languages, it creates compounds by concatenating words without case markers. As in other Germanic languages, the compounds may be arbitrarily long. However, this is obscured by the fact thatthe written representation of long compounds always contains blanks. Short compounds may be written in three different ways, which do not correspond to different pronunciations, however:
The "solid" or "closed" forms: In which two usually moderately short words appear together as one. Solid compounds most likely consist of short (monosyllabic) units that often have been established in the languagefor a long time.
Examples: afterthought; anytime; anywhere; awestruck; backup; backyard; beforehand; breakdown; breathtaking; buildup (also build-up); burnout; byproduct (also by-product); cannot; caregiver; carryover; checkout; churchgoer; citywide; cleanup; colorblind; cooperative (but co-op in its shortened form); copyedit (also copy-edit); countryside; coworker (also co-worker); bankcard;database (also data base); daycare (also day care); daylong; easygoing; extracurricular; falloff; freelance; frontline (also front line); fundraiser (also fund-raiser); fundraising (also fund-raising); ghostwrite; goodwill (also good will); grownup (also grown-up); holdup; homeowner (but home ownership); hourlong; kickoff; lifestyle (also life-style, life style); makeup (also make-up);marketplace; meantime; monthlong; nationwide; nevertheless; noncompliance; nonconforming; nonconformity; nonetheless; nonprofit; notwithstanding; nowhere; officeholder; onboard (also on-board); ongoing; online; overexposure; overgeneralization; overgeneralize; paperwork (also paper work); percent; policymaker, policymaking (also policy-making); postscript; preempt, preemptive; printout; proactive (alsopro-active); proofread; pothole; redheaded (but red-haired); rollout; schoolmate; schoolroom; schoolteacher; schoolwork; schoolyard (but school day and school year); somewhere; spreadsheet; springtime; statewide; stockholder; stockroom (also stock room); storyteller; summertime; tablecloth; thereof; timesaving; tossup; turnaround; waitperson; webpage (also web page and Web page); website (also web siteand Web site); weekday; weekend; weeklong; whiteout; wintertime; workbench; workday; workflow (but paper flow); workforce; workgroup (also work group); workload; workout; workplace (also work place); workroom; worksheet; workstation; worktable; workweek; workwoman; wrongdoing; yearlong

The hyphenated form: In which two or more words are connected by a hyphen. Compounds that contain...