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Silencio Tarsier Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

the rules of two nouns combination.

Normally, there should be a adj. followed by noun.
But sometimes there is a noun followed by noun.
I just want to know the rules of two-noun-combination.
Thx.
  

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There are no such rules. CB

  • There are no such rules.
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There are no such rules.

CB
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I guess you mean attributives. The first noun is read as an adjective:

baseball cap
house party
telephone number

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thank you. Yes, I mean something like these. Is there any rule?
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Silencio Tarsierthank you. Yes, I mean something like these. Is there any rule?
Not really, I don't think. There are teachers here who know much more about rules than I do. I can say that there are cases where the attributive sounds wrong, and a possessive or straight adjective is better. For example, we have girl power, a girl's bicycle and girlish laughter.
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Silencio TarsierNormally, there should be a adj. followed by noun.But sometimes there is a noun followed by noun.I just want to know the rules of two-noun-combination.
Noun+noun composites occur when one noun modifies another noun as in "brick wall", "London college", "cotton shirt", "college student", etc. The first noun in such composites falls under the gen
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Silencio Tarsier the rules of two-noun-combination.
There are no rules. Just learn the compound nouns as if they were single vocabulary items. The exact relationship between the two nouns is not fixed; it varies from one compound noun to another.

dog house (a little house for a dog)
bottle opener (a tool that opens bottles)
ring finger (the
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BillJdon't fall for the common trap of calling the first word an adjective. It certainly is not
Yes, it is.
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enoonYes, it is.
No, it's not.

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enoonBillJdon't fall for the common trap of calling the first word an adjective. It certainly is notYes, it is.You clearly don't know the difference between word category and function
Nonsense - you clearly don't know the difference between category (party of speech) and function. In "brick wall" for example, "brick" belongs to the category noun and its functi

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