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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Make up a phrasal noun

Hi. I'm afraid this might be a long post, but let me start. Let's say there is a teacher who is teaching short 20-minute lessons on weekdays and the lessons are about teaching students how to pronounce a list of words correctly every day. Now, the teacher has to come up with a topic phrase (if we can call it that) for his overall lessons that will identify his lessons and he would like it to be in noun form. And I think this might be good: "Pronunciation Practice."

Now, let's consider another situation. This is another type of lesson he is going to do. The teacher now has finished assigning English names to his students whose names are not in English and today he is going to teach them how to pronounce the English names correctly, and like before he wants to come up with a topic phrase in noun form. Could this be good? "English Name Practice"? Do you have any guidelines as to what to look out for when making up phrases like these in the form of a noun? Please help. Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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Those are both fine. Anonymous Do you have any guidelines as to what to look out for when making up phrases like these in the form of a noun? Just beware of any embarrassing ambiguity.

  • Those are both fine.
  • Anonymous Do you have any guidelines as to what to look out for when making up phrases like these in the form of a noun?
  • Just beware of any embarrassing ambiguity.
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Those are both fine.
Anonymous Do you have any guidelines as to what to look out for when making up phrases like these in the form of a noun?
Just beware of any embarrassing ambiguity.

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