By Prepositions, Hyphens

My try: 1. The neighborhood Elaine Bolt lived in was composed of modest 1930' bungalows mixed with occasional apartment complexes. Is "apartment complex" a compound word? I think yes. Whare is the main stress and the secondary stress? In compound words, stress is always on...

I think a preposition can only be followed by noun, pronoun, gerund, and noun phrase. Please have a look on this POST. Link: www.englishforums.com/English/DifferenceBetweenMeaningThese-SentencesUsedPlayCricket/***/Post.htm Use v-b-x-x-v without hyphens in place of *** in the above link.

Hi Whl626!Thanks a lot for your help. Just a few questions... Whl626 wrote:As I will be graduating from the University of Applied Sciences in October – ***,I must confess that the Xs are a little bit confusing. The word after the hyphen is the city where my university is located in – so it's a...

Hi, Swann discusses this at length in his Practical Engllish Usage, sections 422 to 425 (Nouns in Groups) in my edition. It's best if you can read this, or some other good grammar book, as it's hard to summarize all his detailed points. Here are a few of his comments. The fisrt noun usually...

40-dollar job. Note the hyphen. Nouns as adjectives are singular: 10-minute break, ten-dollar bill, seven-year itch fall into the wrong hands-- this is the idiomatic phrasal verb, which cannot be manipulated. none that I know of = None (of the e.g. players) that I know of. Not that I know...

Really sorry, Srdjan!

ciao pieanne, your solution is pretty elegant "a two half-carriage domain" everything in between "a domain" is kinda adjectives. sounds akwardly, especially if i have to repeat many times in article... I gonna cope .. thanx

Couldn't it be something like "a two half-carriage domain"? A domain with two half-carriages?

QUOTE: two half-carriage domains -> strange as domain is single No, TWO domains is plural.

thanx, Of the second one, I gotta have ear a bit, but the first compund word is such boredom and I can't simply avoid usage. This is actually seen as one domain, a bit confused about "s" at the end, two half-carriages -> this is clear two half-carriage domains -> strange as domain is...