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Jan 6, 2015 · It is, however, a solid rule. Whenever a noun is formed by the unhyphenated joining of a verb and a preposition as in all of your examples, the verb form is constituted of the separated words and the noun is compound with no hyphen. You have shown this clearly. The logic is simple.
Oct 30, 2019 · Uncle Jack said: I don't think the position of a word affects the spelling. A tale can be heartwarming, or it can be a heartwarming tale, but neither would be hyphenated or spelt as two words. However, it could be that the spelling affects the position of the word. "Water-bearing" is only ever hyphenated, and is used as an attribute ("a water ...
Jan 12, 2020 · Jan 12, 2020. #1. "The takeaway was essentially that if you didn't know what other people were listening to, there was much more chaos in the list of the most popular music. It was much more ambiguous, you know, what everyone thought was the best. But if listeners knew what others thought was good, that would actually compound upon itself.
Oct 31, 2018 · The Kennedy Compound consists of three houses on six acres (24,000 m²) of waterfront property on Cape Cod along Nantucket Sound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, United States. It was once the home of American businessman and political figure Joseph P. Kennedy, his wife Rose, and two of their sons, President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
May 11, 2011 · English - US. May 10, 2011. #3. A compound is anything consisting of two or more parts. Clearly these, being two-word phrases, are all compounds. An idiom is a an expression that has a meaning different from that which would be predictable by interpreting it literally.
Feb 21, 2008 · Bon fin de l'après midi a tous! le context ici est The conditions in the internment camps were bad. To compound matters futher the home secretary made it law that the prisonners were not allowed to leave. de plus..... Ça roule? merci :)
Oct 16, 2022 · Yet Susan Emolyn Harman, author of "Descriptive English Grammar," says this on page 382: "The compound relative pronouns whoever, whichever, whatever, etc. are never employed in standard English as interrogative pronouns; and hence they are not used to introduce noun clauses."
May 20, 2013 · May 20, 2013. #3. Very few things involving hyphens are "clear as day," I'm afraid. But one fairly consistent guideline is that adverbs that end in -ly very seldom need to be linked to the word they are modifying with a hyphen. (The reason, in case you're interested, is that hyphens are supposed to alert readers to the fact that the word in ...
Jun 29, 2020 · That is a bit of a tricky question when it comes to loanwords. "Warderobe" was clearly a compound in Northern French. Whilst English has the words "ward" and "robe", the word "wardrobe" did not come about by any English speaker putting them together. So, perhaps the answer to your question is that historically or etymologically it is a compound ...
Sep 15, 2008 · Sample sentence: I already have five computers at home, though I want to buy more. To me, though in this sample sentence cannot mean "but" or "however". I think it means "in spite of the fact that". 1. But is a coordinating conjunction, and though in the same position is a subordinating conjunction. A "though" clause can precede the clause it ...
