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2025年10月21日 · Good morning, I speak and write British English, so I write "metre" and not "meter". I noticed that some compound nounds of "metre" exist, such as "decimetre", "kilometre" (various …
2019年5月20日 · There is no verb "takeaway". The verb is just "take" and "away" is a preposition. "Take-away" as in I'll call in at the take-away on my way home " is a compound noun. Thank you Billj; just …
2006年7月6日 · I'm trying to figure out the actual rule for the above phrases, and I see both "any time" and "anytime" used interchangeably; here it says: Though it is often compressed into a single word …
2018年4月15日 · Depending on one's favourite grammatical theory, one could say either a) that eighteen-year-old is an attributive adjectival compound that has been 'nominalized' by an invisible …
2016年11月14日 · But if the phrase is used as a compound adjective before a noun, does the following look correct, with four hyphens? None of the OneLook dictionaries show an adjectival form. It was not …
2019年11月19日 · And furthermore from Merriam-Webster: The English scapegoat is a compound of the archaic verb scape, which means " escape," and goat, and is modeled on a misreading of the …
2022年3月13日 · Hello from Greece! I know that the possessive case of the compound noun 'mother-in-law' is 'mother-in-law's' as in My mother-in-law's car. What is the possessive case for the plural …
2011年5月25日 · In talking to the contractor, I need to make a clear distinction between traditional 'plaster of Paris' (pasta de yeso; sulfato de cal) and 'drywall joint compound,' also called 'drywall mud' …
2011年7月27日 · Hello, about compound nouns. 1. The key of car= the car key, but I consider "the car's key" to be reasonable in grammar. While I search "car's key" on google, there's little compatible …
2016年5月12日 · next week is an inseparable noun phrase that has one meaning: it can be considered as a compound proper noun or name that describes/is the full set of seven days that start on the …
