INDIVIDUAL CATEGORY

CANDIDATE: Sanjib Karan

ROLL NO.: 50

BATCH: MCA - I

SUBJECT: Business Presentation & Language

Lab

SUBJECT CODE: HU-191

FACULTY: Prof. S.K. Dey

PLACE: Kolkata

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 ASSIGNMENT – 1

TOPIC: - Collecting

Nominal Compounds
Of

different types

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 Content

Page No.

Introduction 4
Definition of Nominal Compound 5
 Types of Nominal Compound 6
Noun+Noun Category 7
Adjective+Noun Category 8
 Verb+Noun Category 9
Sources 10

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 INTRODUCTION

The semantic representations of nominal compounds have been studied,

either directly or indirectly by linguists & AI researchers. In an early

study, Lees developed an impressive taxonomy of the forms. More recently,

Levi & Downing have attempted to capture the linguistic regularities

evidence by nominal compounding. The essential feature of this form of

modification is that the underlying semantic relationship which exists

between the two concepts is not explicit. Moreover, a large numbered of

relationships might, in principal, exist between the two concepts. The

selection of the most appropriate one can depend, in general, on a host of

semantic, pragmatic and contextual factors.

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Definition of Nominal Compounds

Sometimes noun and a noun equivalent or a noun phrases are joined together

in a compact manner in order to express clearly and precisely a person or a

Nominal Compound.

The advantage of compounding mostly lies in making a lengthy sentence into

a single composite form. Many sentences may be reduced into single word by

way of applying this method.

The basic idea behind formation of compounding lies in an intention to

abridge the expanded words.

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Noun Adjective Verb
+ + +
Noun Noun Noun

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Noun+Noun Category: -

1. cricket match
2. tool box
3. paper bag
4. power plant
5. moon light
6 oil lamp
7. motor car
8. machine gun
9. computer screen
10. electric guitar
11. chemical laboratory
12. tube light
13. weather report
14. radio programme
15. Post man

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Adjective+Noun Category: -

1. nominal compound
2. red rose
3. dark room
4. free trade
5. black board
6 mid night
7. rich man
8. chemical compound
9. postal service
10. wicked smile
11. noble lady
12. red fort
13. green leaves
14. sweet heart
15. blue eyes

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Verb+Noun Category: -

1. spoil sport
2. kill joy
3. breakfast
4. cut-throat
5. pickpocket
6. dreadnaught
7. know-nothing
8. spend thrust
9. pickup bus
10. dropout students

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Sources: -

1. Internet-

a)www.wikipedia.org

b)Google Serach

2. Highlights of English –

P.K. Mukherjee

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