Compound Nouns.pptx
- 2. Noun + Noun Generally used for commonly accepted compound nouns which refer to familiar things e.g. A waiting room ( the first noun used as a kind of adj/ so singular only ) e.g. A police inspector e.g. A water bottle e.g. A bottle opener Type Main Class of Noun
- 3. ( the first noun used as a kind of adj / so singular only ) E.g. a pencil case Other relations include; Where something is found (e.g. a garden chair ) When it is used ( e.g. morning coffee) The thing it is part of ( e.g. a door handle) Adjectival noun is singular( although this is a case for pencil )
- 4. Language Note အခ ျိုသ ော ဟောသ ွေကို - ခံပ ြီး သရြီးလို ို့ ရသ မို့ သ ောက်ထ ်ထ ် ိုြီး ံိုစံ ဖြစ် ို့ စကောြီးလံိုြီး နှစ်လံိုြီး ွေသရြီး ော e.g. window seat( ို ို့ မဟို ်) စကောြီးလံိုြီး ခို ည်ြီး ို့ လ သရြီးလို ို့ ရ e.g. daylight
- 5. Noun + ‘s/ s’+noun Used for things loosely belonging to or related to people. e.g. the school’s policy e.g. my sister’s car e.g. Peter's hair e.g. the boys’ father
- 6. Noun + of + Noun Used where no common compound exist. For unit , parts and for certain fixed expressions. e.g. the end of the film e.g. a glass of milk e.g. the corner of the street Also used to describe things belonging to other things, not to named people.
- 7. Diff: meaning between N + of + N and N + N A cup of tea = a cup containing tea A tea cup = a cup used for tea
- 8. Notes In some cases, N +s’/’s + N and N + of + N are both used. e.g. the decision of the author / the author’s decision e.g. the publication of the book / the book ‘s publication