WRITING WELL

Different Types of Compound Nouns

And when to hyphenate compound nouns in your writing

Photo by frank mckenna on Unsplash

In my post “All About Adjectives, Part I: Syracuse Edition,” I discuss various types of adjectives, including compound adjectives, which have more than one word and are sometimes, but not always, hyphenated. Similar to compound adjectives, compound nouns also contain more…