Third person singular for joined word.

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Case: What is the third person rule for a self-created joined word? I am very confused about that. Googled a lot but to no avail. No example is coming to my mind, so I cannot suggest an example also of such kind of word. But to make you understand my question better, I would like to tell you that I am taking about a word which is completly similiar in meaning and wordings and has been connected with hyphen.Question: Would you use third person singular for such kind of self formed word? Will the use of a hyphen make it a plural? Please try to answer it.Thanks

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

You need to provide an example of what you are asking about.

Clive

Anonymous · Answer

CliveHi,

You need to provide an example of what you are asking about.

Clive

As I said I am not being able to think of such an example. So please just tell me hypen related third person rule. What I have in my mind is in my native language, and this word is untranslatable. To those I'm going to say this word will get it, not you. Please understand my situation. I have already explained the details of the word and its type in my question. There are two totally similiar words connected with hyphen. Will we treat them as singular or plural?

Clive · Answer

Hi,

Sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about. Perhaps someone else will be able to help you.

Clive

Anonymous · Answer

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AlpheccaStars · Answer

Question: Would you use third person singular for such kind of self-formed word? I assume you are talking about a nonsense word - something that is not in the dictionary, but you think it is clever. The answer is yes, if the word is a noun. You can make up adjectives, verbs, adverbs, etc. For words with those parts of speech, person/number are moot. Verbs would be inflected as weak verbs.

Will the use of a hyphen make it a plural? No. Hyphens have nothing to do with number.

Famous poets have made up words.

Jabberwocky is a great example of a poem full of creative nonsense words:

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

Anonymous · Answer

AlpheccaStarsQuestion: Would you use third person singular for such kind of self-formed word? I assume you are talking about a nonsense word - something that is not in the dictionary, but you think it is clever. The answer is yes, if the word is a noun. You can make up adjectives, verbs, adverbs, etc. For words with those parts of speech, person/number are moot. Verbs would be inflected as weak verbs.

Will the use of a hyphen make it a plural? No. Hyphens have nothing to do with number.

Famous poets have made up words.
Jabberwocky is a great example of a poem full of creative nonsense words:

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Thanks a million Alpha for answering my question reply and your time

. You got what I was trying to say [Y]. Though your use of the word "non-sense" jolted me for a second but I got what you were trying to convey. No-issue [H].

However, I do notthink the word I'm thinking of using can be categorised as "nonsense" as it does make a lot of sense there in the sentense and in my local dailect idiomatically. The word would translate roughly like this: "child-child". Sentence is something like this in my local dialect: Child-child know/knows that....). For the word child I am using local dialect in my English sentense to use the idiom based on it. Difficult to explain these things you know

. Anyway, since you have cleared my doubt, I will use third person singular for such word. Hyphened words confuse my often.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

I see that you are not talking about standard English, but Pidgin or creole languages. There are many of these languages in the world.

The grammars and vocabularies of these languages are quite different from modern English. If you are making a hybird language (combining a local language and English), then I suppose you can use your own judgement about the rules of grammar. In general, the grammar of pidgins are simplified as compared to the mother tongue.

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