i didnt understand compound words

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As you have posted the question at Lesson no. 2 (Collective, Abstract and Compound nouns), I am assuming that you wish to ask about compound nouns:

 

When two or more nouns are combined together to form a single noun, it is known as a compound noun. They normally have two parts. The second part identifies the object or person in question ( man, friend, tank, table, room ). The first part tells us what kind of object or person it is, or what its purpose is (police, boy, water, dining, bed ).

They are written in various ways:

  1. as one word: policeman, girlfriend, etc.

  2. as two words joined by a hyphen: brothers-in-law, father-in-law, dining-table, etc.

  3. as two separate words: fish tank, washing machine, living room, table tennis, etc.

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 a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stemCompounding or composition is the word formation that creates compound lexemes (the other word-formation process being derivation). Compounding or Word-compounding refers to the faculty and device of language to form new words by combining or putting together old words. In other words, compoundcompounding or word-compounding occurs when a person attaches two or more words together to make them one word. The meanings of the words interrelate in such a way that a new meaning comes out which is very different from the meanings of the words in isolation

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compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word ) that consists of more than one stem .Compounding or composition is the word formation that creates compound lexemes (the other word-formation process being derivation ). Compounding or Word-compounding refers to the faculty and device of language to form new words by combining or putting together old words. In other words, compound compounding or word-compounding occurs when a person attaches two or more words together to make them one word. The meanings of the words interrelate in such a way that a new meaning comes out which is very different from the meanings of the words in isolation

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