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Types of compound word?(to be written on the CW Notebook)
There are three types of compound words: closed, open and hyphenated.

Closed compound words are made up of two words without a space in-between. Examples
of closed compound words are: moonlight, classroom, and sunflower.
Open compound words have a space between the smaller words that make them up. Even
though the words seem separate, when you read them together they have a new meaning.
Full moon is an open compound word. When we read the smaller separate words 'full' and
'moon' together, they have a new, unique meaning.
Hyphenated compound words are formed by using a hyphen, a small dash used to connect
words together. Numbers like fifty-nine and twenty-one are hyphenated compound words.

A compound word is a word made by shortening and combining two words.
Words like

Out+ Snow+ bell=snowbell.
Grass+ hopper=
door=outdoor grasshopper

Closed Compound Words:

 Closed compound words look like one word.

 At one point, these words weren’t used together, but they’re now accepted as

a “real word” in the English language.

 Closed compound words are usually made up of only two words. Here are
some closed compound examples.