A compound is a word composed of more than one free morpheme. The English language, like many others, uses compounds frequently. English compounds may...
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denominator), then the result – at least in English – may be an open compound. The meaning of the compound may be similar to or different from the meaning...
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Hyphen (redirect from Object–verbal noun compound)
comprehension. The use of the hyphen in English compound nouns and verbs has, in general, been steadily declining. Compounds that might once have been hyphenated...
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forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using...
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after the English Civil War Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, an English Civil War institution that allowed Parliament to compound the estates...
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linguistics, a compound verb or complex predicate is a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb...
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nominal compounding, producing compound words such as babysitter or ice cream or homesick. A process more common in Old English than in Modern English, but...
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subjects. For English compound subjects joined by and, the agreement rules are generally unambiguous, but sometimes tricky. For example, the compound subject...
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Classical compound Latin Latin influence in English List of Byzantine Greek words of Latin origin List of Greek and Latin roots in English List of Latin...
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A chemical compound is a chemical substance composed of many identical molecules (or molecular entities) containing atoms from more than one chemical element...
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