hello everyone how are you today this is Marc I'm doing great thanks for asking
so what do these words have in common shoelace passerby sister-in-law seatbelt
if you want to know the answer stay tuned because we're going to talk about
compound nouns
right we're going to talk about compound nouns a noun is a word that means a
person an animal a place an idea or a thing
there can be concrete or abstract nouns a concrete noun is something that you
can touch for example a table a whiteboard a house a fire an apple things
that you can touch an abstract noun is for example nature love happiness they
are feelings ideas emotions qualities things that you cannot touch
they're usually introduced with articles indefinite or definite articles for
example an apple a house a computer the dog etc also they can be true introduced
with possessive adjectives like my suitcase his shirt etc and determiners
for example this glass that plans etc I said that we're going to talk about
compound nouns - it is a fixed expression made with more than one word so the
first rule to follow is that the first part of the compound noun usually is a
purpose or kind I will give you some examples later on the second part
usually is who or what the stress is on the first syllable so WEEK end
not weekEND but WEEKend and you can sometimes omit the second word only
after mentioning it first so for example how often do you use your personal
computer personal computer here is the compound noun right and I can answer I
use my computer every evening so I don't
need to mention personal right so I just omit personal and I just mention
personal for the computer don't forget that I used the in this
case the possessive adjective my to identify which computer I'm talking
about now some compound nouns are written with hyphens
for example baby-sitter and here we have a - or brother-in-law here we have two
hyphens and letter-box these are examples and there are a lot of them
others can be written with or without a hyphen for example air conditioner you can
write a - or you can omit it living-room okay with or without the hyphen some
compounds that consist of more than two words are written partly with a hyphen
and a space for example back-seat and here we have an - back-seat passenger no
- we just add a space mother-tongue speaker for example now obviously
compound nouns can be countable and uncountable and I listed some countable
ones blood donor here we don't need a - blood donor bus stop car park
uncountable ones further education so we don't say further educations but we
say further education do-it-yourself fast food and then the last one toilet
paper now I'm going to erase this and I'm going to show you other points of
about compound nouns Actually I think it's the most important
point in this lesson right so we're back compound nouns are made of two words
usually but sometimes more they're made up of a noun plus noun for example house
wife class mate plus room classroom etc then we have adjective
plus noun for example high school old age dining-room greenhouse or noun +
verb rainfall trainspotting etc now + adverb passerby runner up or verb + noun
driving license washing machine adverb + noun bystander for example and adjective
+ verb dry-cleaning so now let's recap in this lesson we
talked about compound nouns but I first started by describing what a noun is
A compound noun is a word made up of two or more words put together there can be
noun plus noun adjective plus noun noun plus verb noun plus adverb etc just like
nouns there can be countable or uncountable
compound nouns well that's it for today thank you very much for watching please
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