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Right. Generally speaking, only singular nouns are used as adjectives to modify another noun. As with most "rules", however, there are some exceptions, but unfortunately I can't think of any at the moment. ![Tongue Tied [:S]](/emoticons/emotion-7.gif)
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Hi,
I often have trouble with that. I think it's only true for nouns that are kind of "fixed" or "accepted" in everyday English. Like
shoe store: everybody knows what it is, right? It's the standard way you call that kind of thing, that kind of store.
But are you know posting in the
grammar rule section or the
grammar rules section? I'd say the latter,
rules. You click on the
options button to see what options are available, don't you? I wouldn't say
option button.
I don't know the reason, I guess it's as I said, these are not "standard" common nouns used to refer to things everyone knows. They are just nouns with another noun in front, which act as a lable.
So let's try this...
You say it's
essay book, not
essays book. I guess it's a "standard" way to refer to that book. What if I had a book full of something else? Like suspects? The police might have one... do they say:
Hey Bob, gimme the suspect book or .
..gimme the suspects book? I'd say "suspects", because "suspect book" is not a common fixed word.
What do you guys think?
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