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    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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  • 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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