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“Compound and Collective nouns.”
Compound Noun
A compound noun is a word formed from two are more words, these words can be nouns, verbs or adjectives.
These words may combined to make new nouns.
Noun + Noun
Verb+Noun
Ajd+Noun
boyfriend
girlfriend
manhole
breakfast
grindstone
worksheet
full-moon
software
hardware
Things to remember
A compound noun is always
A compound noun is primarily .
Collective Noun
Collective nouns identify groups of other nouns as a single unit.
A collective noun is usually expressed when an exact number is either unknown or not needed.
People
Animals
A thing
team
committee
family
crowd
herd
shoal
flight
gaggle
pack
bunch
packet
pile
Things to remember
A collective noun may describe the type or characteristic of the group .
A shoal of fish can be many types of fish is a loose group
A school of fish is a group of fish that are are all of the same species swimming in a close formation.
Compound nouns can be written as one word.
They can be written with two words.
With a hyphen
Wallpaper/birdcage
post office/eye shadow
lamp-post/tee-shirt
Identifier:
*Unique; A word, in and to itself, unique. proper nouns.
**General; A word that can represent a "unique identifier" without the need of a "determiner" e.g. a, the, every. pronouns.
Descriptor:
^Unique; A word that is used as an introduction to help define a "unique identifier" or a "general identifier". common nouns.
^^General; A word that is used to define things made from matter. concrete nouns.
^^^intangible; A word is used to define things absent of matter. abstract nouns.
