Search results for 'tag:Prepositions tag:Hyphens' matching tags 'Prepositions' and 'Hyphens'

Re: word classes

Clive — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:46:59 GMT

Hi,

When she was 16-years-old a 16-year-old is a noun. 16 years old (ie no hyphens) is an adjectival phrase
she ran away (preposition) from home and moved to London, then (adverb) New York to work as (adverb) a nurse. During (preposition) her time in New York, she kept in contact with (preposition) her sister. She said âI donât know what (pronoun) Iâll do about it, but I donât see why (noun) we should just (adverb) waitâ¦ And I always (adverb) had that picture in my mind, all adverb through this time.â

German (adjective?) inventor (noun) John Smith...

She travelled far, crossing (verb present participle) several army (noun used as an adjective?) checkpoints, until she was expelled from (preposition) the country.

Some of these words are not easy to classify.
Best wishes, Clive

Re: words

Doll — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:35:26 GMT

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 the first element, that is , here stress is on "apartment".

2. ...dentists who were willing to give you twilight sleep so you could have your teeth cleaned without cringing.

Is "twilight sleep " a compound word? It seems so here. I couldn't find it on the list of compound words but normally you can't give a sleep. Whare is the main stress and the secondary stress? Always on the first element. Stress is on "twilight".

There are also some:

fume-spewing manufacturing

a combination of modern and mock-Spanish

a palm-planted courtyard

a glass-enclosed lobby

Are these words linked by the hyphens compound words? Yes they are. Where are the main stresses and the secondary stresses? The main stress is always on the first elements in compound words. Are all of words linked by hyphens compound words? I was taught that all the words linked by hypens are compound words. How to recognize them? The joining of two or more seperate words to produce a single form is called compounding. An adjective or a noun is joined to make a noun for example. If there is two seperate words and it gives us a different meaning you can say that it is a compound word. For example:

spoon-feed: N+V . This is a verb. If you feed babies with spoon, it is called spoon-feeding.

over+look: Preposition+ verb. This is a verb.

Re: Is preposition always followed by a noun?

Jackson6612 — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:15:36 GMT

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.

Re: Please help me correcting my covering letter

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:47:28 GMT

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 â ***,

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 â so it's a part of the name. I think it's not a good idea to separate these parts?!?

Whl626 wrote:

Besides having four years of training in the University, I also have some experience in Bayer Schering Pharma AG in the Production Logistic and Project Management department.

Bayer Schering Pharma AG is the company name... is âinâ the right preposition? In my opinion it must be âatâ, but to take the correct preposition is always hard for Germans ;-)

Regards,

Markus

Re: what determines this?

Clive — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:11:45 GMT

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 refers to a whole class of things.

The first noun usually has an 'object' relationship to the second noun. If you wrote a longer sentence to expres the same idea, it would be the object of a verb or preposition. eg Book case = People put their books in a book case.

The first noun is usually singular.

The structure usually describes well-known things for which a special name is thus useful. eg a 'corner table' in a restaurant but 'the girl in the corner', not 'the corner girl'.

Some use hyphens, some do not.

The first noun can express various meanings, eg what the second is made of, or where it is found, or what it is a part of, or what it is used for, etc.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: prepositions...again.

Mister Micawber — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:48:30 GMT

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 of = (The activity/condition does) not (exist) that I know of.
champion for all time-- only this form is natural.
in its heyday -- an idiom.
the show is about what?-- this is the correct form.

Re: hyphen-preposition question

pieanne — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:25:08 GMT

Really sorry, Srdjan!

Re: hyphen-preposition question

Srdjan — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:10:58 GMT

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

Re: hyphen-preposition question

pieanne — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:49:04 GMT

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

Re: hyphen-preposition question

Eimai_Anglos — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:43:57 GMT

QUOTE: two half-carriage domains -> strange as domain is single

No, TWO domains is plural.