As in spelling, a few rules may be helpful; but, also as in spelling, only continuous reference to a dictionary or to a good list of compound words, will enable a writer to attain any degree of perfection in their use.
Horace Teall, who was a department editor of the Standard Dictionary, having in charge especially the matter of compound words.
Compound words with ne, sen, mal, have also a negative signification, and such words are often employed with a negative to express an affirmative assertion.
In our own language the true aspirates, like the true duplications, are found only in compound words; and there they are often slurred in the pronunciation.
In compound words it is the first term that defines or particularises the second.
They gobble sweetmeats, they gossip, they laugh, they enjoy themselves--the husbands are not there.
Poly-, incompound words of Greek origin, same as multi- in those of Latin origin viz.
This woman belonged to the race of martyrs; her intense credulity bordered on heroism.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compound words" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
