Compound Nouns

Compound Nouns adalah noun (kata benda) yang terbentuk dari penggabungan 2 buah kata atau lebih, dimana dari gabungan keduanya di peroleh sebuah makna / arti sebuah kata benda. Compound noun biasanya terbentuk dari gabungan [noun + noun] atau [adjective + noun] dan juga bisa dari kombinasi kata – kata lain.

Ada tiga buah bentuk kata yang sudah di gabung (compound nouns)

1. Menggunakan spasi – contohnya >> tennis shoe
2. Hyphenated – menggunakan garis penghubung, contohnya >> six-pack
3. Closed or solid – penggabungan dengan cara menyatukan kata –katanya, contoh >> bedroom

Berikut ada beberapa contoh dari Compound Nouns

Noun	+	Noun	bus stop   fire-fly   fooball	Is this bus stop for the number 12 bus ? In the topics you can see fire-flies at night Shall we play football today
Adjective	+	Noun	full moon   blackboard   software	I always feel crazy at full moon Clean the blackboard please I can’t install this software on my PC
Verb (-ing)	+	Noun	breakfast   washing machine   swimming pool	We always eat breakfast at 8 am Put the clothes in the red washing machine What a beautiful swimming pool!
Noun	+	verb (-ing)	sunrise   haircut   train-spotting	I like to get up at sunrise You need a haircut His hobby is train-spotting
Verb	+	Preposition	check-out	Please remember that check-out is at 12 noon
Noun	+	Preposional phrase	mother-in-law	My mother-in-law lives with us
Preposition	+	Noun	underworld	Do you think the police accept money from the underworld
Noun	+	Adjective	truckful	We need 10 truckfuls of bricks

Bentuk jamak (plural) dari Compound Noun

Singular	Plurar
a school teacher one assistant headmaster the sergeant major a mother-in-law an assistant secretary of state my toothbrush a woman-doctor a doctor of philosophy a passerby, a passer-by	three  school teachers five assistant headmaster some sergeants major two mothers-in-law three assistant secreataries of state our toothbrushes four women-doctors two doctors of philosophy two passersby, two passers-by