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Grammar 1
GRAMMAR
Using Hyphens in Words:Nouns, Compound Nouns, Compound
Adjectives
Celebrate English 5AUnit 1
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Grammar 2
GRAMMAR:
Using Hyphens in Words:
• Nouns
• Compound Nouns
• Compound Adjectives
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Grammar 3
What are Nouns?
Simple Definitions:
A person, place or thing.
Here are some examples:
•person: man, woman, teacher, John, Mary
•place: home, office, town, school (CHIJ Bukit
Timah), Singapore
•thing: table, car, banana, money, music,
love,dog, monkey
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Grammar 4
Nouns
In simple terms, nouns are "things" (and verbs areactions").
• Like food. Food (noun) is something you eat (verb). • Or happiness. Happiness (noun) is something you
want (verb).
• Or human being. A human being (noun) issomething you are (verb).
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Grammar 5
NounsNouns often come after one or more adjectives:
• a great relief
• a peaceful afternoon • the tall, German doctor • this difficult word • my brown and white house
• a wonderful party
Tell us more
about the nouns,
qualify the
nouns
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Grammar 6
What are Compound Nouns?
• A compound noun is made up of morethan one word and yet describes only
one object (one noun).• A compound noun is made up of a
combination of two nouns eg.
an address book, a bookworm,wormhole/ worm cast
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Grammar 7
What are Compound Nouns?
Compound Noun Chain :
• A compound noun chain starts with one noun (i.e.room). You add another noun (i.e. service) to make acompound noun (room service). Then you take the secondnoun (service), and add another noun (i.e. station) to makethe next compound noun (service station). Continue in aclockwise direction until you get back to the beginning (i.e.study room).
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Grammar 8
What are Compound Nouns?
• Formation:
• Words can be combined to form compound nouns. These are very common, and new combinations areinvented almost daily. They normally have two parts.
• The first part tells us what kind of object or personit is, or what its purpose is (police, boy, water, dining, bed ):
• The second part identifies the object or person inquestion (man, friend, tank, table, room ).
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Grammar 9
What are Compound Nouns?What
type/Whatpurpose
What or who CompoundNoun
police man policeman
water tank water tank
fruit juice fruit juice
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Grammar 10
What are Compound Adjectives?
• A compound adjective is formed from twodifferent words, and occasionally three. They areusually written with a hyphen (e.g. good-looking,
well-known).• Special Words: merry-go-round, Jack-in-the-box
• Most of the population are right-handed, butabout 10% are left-handed.
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Grammar 11
What are Compound Adjectives?
Noun … adjective … noun Compound adjective … noun
The stool has three legs.
It is a three-legged stool.
Mary has long hair. Mary is a long-haired beauty.
The soldiers have
green helmets.
They are green -
helmeted soldiers.
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Grammar 12
What are Compound Adjectives?
Can you mentally “draw” pictures ofthese?
Shoes Monster Pan
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Grammar 13
What are Compound Adjectives?
Can you “mentally” draw pictures ofthese?
Shoes Monster Pan
High-heeledshoes
Three-headedmonster
Long-handledpan
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Grammar 14
Quiz Time!
• Match the two columns to have a meaningful sentence.
Use the boxes on the left to write your choices.
1. The police officermade him pay
a. a five-dollar note.
2. The secretary typed b. a two-way street.
3. He lent me d. a ten-page report
yesterday.
4. Watch out! This is e. a hundred-questiontest.
5. The teacher set up f. a hundred-dollar fine
for speeding.
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