Common compound words that have been widely in use for many years are considered permanent compounds, and can often be found in a dictionary. For example, there is little debate over whether ...

Compound words are made up of two parts of speech. For example, the compound noun handkerchief is made up of two nouns: hand + kerchief. Semantically, compound words are very interesting ...

Examples include ‘could not’ (couldn’t), ‘It is’ (it’s). With compound words, there are no truncations (shortening of words) since the two distinct words are simply joined. For example ...

with the halves of the original compound word. For example, given "lamplight," with the clue "a place to sleep outdoors," the answer would be "campsite." Think of a common compound word in which ...

Back-to-school, back to school. A good example of AP’s basic hyphenation rules in action. For compound adjectives before a noun — that is words that are combined together to modify a noun ...

that can follow the first to complete a compound word or a familiar two-word phrase. Example: Walk --> Way = walkway Last week's challenge: This challenge comes from listener Peter Stein of San ...

Compound words are made up of two parts of speech. For example, the compound noun handkerchief is made up of two nouns: hand + kerchief. Semantically, compound words are very interesting ...