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i'm teacher john and i'm here to help you become great at learning english today's video is about
compound words which i think is a very interesting subject because we use compound words a lot
in our daily speaking and it can sometimes be confusing or difficult to see if something is a
compound word or if it's just a normal adjective a noun so today we're going to learn about that
all right so let's get started so right now you might be wondering
what is a compound word well a compound word is when two or more sometimes there's three
or four words in the compound word when two or more different words are used
or put together to form a new meaning okay so it's a new word with a new meaning
so for let's take a look at some examples for you so maybe you can recognize these words and
understand what we're talking about here dinner table is a very common compound word coffee mug
wheelbarrow superman and long term so if you look at these words you can see they're actually
um all a little bit different so today we're going to talk about how they're different
and how to recognize these kinds of words so how many kinds of compound words are there well there
are three different kinds okay one we have open compound words two closed captioning not available
plus a noun okay so it's an additive and a noun and these two things together they make
one new noun so for example the word living room this is a compound noun
and in this example the word living actually is an adjective even though it's it's usually a verb
here it's being used to modify a noun so it's an adjective okay but then this these two words
big cat this is not a compound noun okay hmm but maybe you're you're thinking why why is it not
it's an adjective and a noun okay so let's learn about how to identify a compound noun
and the rule usually is if the adjective and the noun are commonly used together like living room
it is usually a compound noun okay so that's why the word big cat is not a compound noun because
those words are not commonly used together now let's talk about closed compound words
a closed compound word it looks like one word okay there's no space in the middle of the
word so these are words like firefighter notebook superman okay and as you can see
a closed compound word is usually made up of two words okay it's it's very rare to see
a three word closed compound word that that's that's quite rare all right so usually two
words and no space in the middle it's closed and finally let's talk about hyphenated compound words
okay a hyphen separates the words and maybe you don't if you don't know what a hyphen
is okay it's a small line like this in the middle of the word so here you can see this word here
long term long term is a compound word but usually it's it has a hyphen in the middle of it okay
and here we have a uh a compound word that uses three words okay up to date okay again
usually this word has a hyphen to separate the three words so
hyphen is used if the compound adjective is placed before the noun okay it's before the noun okay
like this a long term solution so the compound word is before the noun use the hyphen okay but
if you can look at the second sentence here this compound word long term is now
after the noun okay and then we don't use a hyphen so for example this is a good solution
for the long term no hyphen because it's after the noun alright everyone that's our video today
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