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Hanuman_2000 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

fruit seller

Hello,

1. A fruit seller sells ...........................

2. A bookseller sells .......................

I want to know why fruit seller with two different words while bookseller one word.
  

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Hi, 1. A fruit seller sells ........................... 2.

  • Hi, 1.
  • A fruit seller sells ...........................
  • 2.
  • A bookseller sells .......................
  • I want to know why fruit seller with two different words while bookseller one word.
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Hi,

1. A fruit seller sells ...........................

2. A bookseller sells .......................

I want to know why fruit seller with two different words while bookseller one word.

It's really just idiomatic. We write it that way because we wri
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There are no clear rules how compound nouns should be written.

I think both nouns can take an open form: written separately.

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