Compound Words

Chapter 4

10. What is the rule about two nouns used together to form a name?

11. What is the rule about names composed of a plain noun and a verbal noun?

12. How are possessive phrases used as specific names treated?

13. What is the rule about phrases used as specific names?

14. How do you write a pair of words used as a name when the second word is a noun and the first not really an adjective?

15. How do you treat two words, not nouns, arbitrarily used as a name?

16. How do you treat a compound consisting of a suffix and a compound proper name?

17. How do you treat words so a.s.sociated that their joint sense is different from their separate sense?

18. How may compounds having the force of nouns be made up?

19. How may compounds having the force of adjectives be made up?

20. How may compounds having the force of verbs be made up?

21. How may compounds having the force of adverbs be made up?

22. How are compound nouns written when one of the components is derived from a transitive verb?

23. How is a compound of a present participle and a noun written?

24. How is a compound of a present participle and a preposition treated?

25. What is the usage in compounds of _book_, _house_, _will_, _room_, _shop_, and _work_?

26. How are compounds of _maker_ and _dealer_ written?

27. What is done when nouns are combined in a descriptive phrase before a name of a person?

28. How are compounds of _store_ treated?

29. How are compounds of _fellow_ treated?

30. How are compounds of _father_, _mother_, _brother_, _sister_, _daughter_, _parent_, and _foster_ treated?

31. What compounds of _great_ are hyphenated?

32. How are compounds of _life_ and _world_ treated?

33. What is the rule about compounds of _skin_?

34. How are compounds of _master_ treated?

35. What is the rule about compounds of _G.o.d_?

36. Give fifteen common prefixes and tell how they are used, stating exceptions.

37. What are the negative prefixes and how are they used?

38. What is the rule about the prefixes _quasi_, _extra_, _supra_, _ultra_, and _pan_?

39. What is the rule about _over_ and _under_?

40. What is the rule about compounds of _self_ and _by_?

41. How are compounds of _fold_ treated?

42. What is the rule about compounds of a noun followed by _like_?

43. How are t.i.tles treated when compounded with _vice_, _elect_, _ex_, _general_, and _lieutenant_?

44. How do you write three familiar compounds denoting time?

45. How should you treat fractional numbers spelled out?

46. What is done when two or more compound words with a common component occur in succession?

47. How do you write compounds of ordinal numbers and nouns?

48. What rule is given about numerals of one syllable?

49. What rule is given about numerals compounded with nouns?

50. How do you treat a compound of two nouns one in the possessive case?

51. How are compounds of _tree_ treated?

52. What is the rule about compounds of two adjectives?

53. What is the rule about points of the compa.s.s?

54. What should you do with compounds ending in _man_ or _woman_?

55. Give certain common typical phrases which omit the hyphen.

56. How do you treat compounds ending in _holder_ and _monger_?

57. How do you treat compounds beginning with _eye_?

58. What is said of compounds beginning with _deutero_, _electro_, _pseudo_, _sulpho_, _thermo_, and the like?

59. Give some common compounds which are always run solid.

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