hello everyone how are you today this
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 and a noun is a
word that names 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 quantities
things that you cannot touch they're
usually introduced with articles
indefinite or definite articles for
example an apple house a computer the
dog etc also they can be introduced
with possessive adjectives like my
suitcase his shirt etc and determiners
for example this class that plant etc I
said that we're going to talk about
compound nouns it's 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
WEEKend and 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 a 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 computer don't
forget that I used 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 - -
and letter-box these are examples and
there are a lot of them others can be
written with or without - for example
air conditioner you can write the - or
you can omit it living room okay with or
without the - 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
a - 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 about
compound nouns actually I think is 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 housewife classmate
classroom etc then we have
adjective plus noun for example high
school old-age dining-room greenhouse
or noun plus verb rainfall train
spotting etc now plus adverb passer-by
runner-up or verb plus noun driving license
washing machine adverb plus noun
bystander for example and adjective plus
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 the
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
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