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Perfect Stranger Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Grammar question no. 52: compound nouns or not?

Dear All,

Would you be so kind and tell me if the following words are compound nouns or not?
  1. paper bag
  2. dinner table
  3. Chinese teacher
  4. soap opera
  5. kung-fu master
  6. English class
  7. potato chips
  8. iron man
  9. dining room
  10. river bank
Thank you
  

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Perfect Stranger Would you be so kind and tell me if the following words are compound nouns I'd say these are: dining table soap opera potato chip iron man dining room riverbank But as you know, it is a vague area.

— Mister Micawber

  • Perfect Stranger Would you be so kind and tell me if the following words are compound nouns I'd say these are: dining table soap opera potato chip iron man dining room riverbank But as you know, it is a vague area.
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Perfect StrangerWould you be so kind and tell me if the following words are compound nouns
I'd say these are:

dining table
soap opera
potato chip
iron man
dining room
riverbank

But as you know, it is a vague area.
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Thank you.

You've excluded the following ones:

paper bag
Chinese teacher
soap opera
kung-fu master
English class

May I know why?

Cheers
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I've never seen potatochip, soapopera, diningroom or diningtable.
Ironman is OK.

I assume a compound noun is a single word made up of two separate words, such as firetruck or whiteboard.
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AlpheccaStars assume a compound noun is a single word made up of two separate words, such as firetruck or whiteboard.
According to most sources, they can be single words, hyphenated words, or two words! Here, for instance: http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/nouns4.p
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