B. compound adjectives

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A. compound nouns

Give examples of your own consulting a dictionary.

Examine the difference in the accetual structure of the oppositions given below (compound nouns as opposed to woprd groups). Which of the two would you use for the definitions on the left?

a. a particular kind of boat long boat

a boat that is long longboat

b. a baseball hard ball

any ball that is hard hardball

c. a room that is dark dark room

special room used in photography darkroom

d. a house lit exceptionally well lighthouse

a tall tower with light warning for vessels light house

e. a rock that is false sham-rock

a clover-like plant with three leaves shamrock

f. a jacket that is blue blue jacket

a seaman in the Navy bluejacket

g. a wild flower of blue and white flowers blue bell

a bell that is blue bluebell

5. ² Comment on the distribution of stress in the following words:

campfire, milk bottle, book-keeper, birth place, central heating, classroom, wristwatch, headache, pocketknife, tennis ball, wastebasket, schoolteacher, department store, road map, shoe store, swimming pool, drinking fountain, campfire, toothpaste, writing paper

broad-minded, left-handed, good-natured, bad-tempered, open-hearted, open-minded, well-behaved, well-balanced, short-sighted, good-looking, well-informed, well-knit, clean-shaven, second-hand, ill-bred, ill-looking, well-read, well-dressed, well-marked