So can "cordial," as an alcoholic beverage. But a cordial greeting is not a compound noun.
I already said I was done with this; you go ahead and treat it as a singular and I won't jump in every time. But I'll bet you that not one American in a hundred knows that media is the plural of medium, or that it's a plural at all. Does this also…
So can "cordial," as an alcoholic beverage. But a cordial greeting is not a compound noun.
I already said I was done with this; you go ahead and treat it as a singular and I won't jump in every time. But I'll bet you that not one American in a hundred knows that media is the plural of medium, or that it's a plural at all. Does this also apply to "news media?"
Edit: I see where the disagreement lies. I looked up a few of those internet sources and they say that a compound noun is a noun with additional *words*. That definition doesn't require the other words to be nouns. So, "big dog" would be a compound noun, as would "tall building."
I am not buying that for a second.
My understanding, reinforced by every grammar text and ESL textbook I have ever read, is that "compound noun" is what it says: a combination of two or more nouns. Theme and park are both nouns; "theme park" is a compound noun. "Social media" is an adjective and noun; "social" here is an adjective, as in Social Security, it isn't in the sense of "church social" in which it is indeed a noun.
Not everything on the Internet is correct. And with everything from less/fewer and your/you're to classical music now regarded as "elitist," hardly anyone gives a fuck about correct grammar anymore.
Well, I'm not dumbing down my résumé with "action words" and I'm not using "they" for one person. Because I do give a fuck.
So can "cordial," as an alcoholic beverage. But a cordial greeting is not a compound noun.
I already said I was done with this; you go ahead and treat it as a singular and I won't jump in every time. But I'll bet you that not one American in a hundred knows that media is the plural of medium, or that it's a plural at all. Does this also apply to "news media?"
Edit: I see where the disagreement lies. I looked up a few of those internet sources and they say that a compound noun is a noun with additional *words*. That definition doesn't require the other words to be nouns. So, "big dog" would be a compound noun, as would "tall building."
I am not buying that for a second.
My understanding, reinforced by every grammar text and ESL textbook I have ever read, is that "compound noun" is what it says: a combination of two or more nouns. Theme and park are both nouns; "theme park" is a compound noun. "Social media" is an adjective and noun; "social" here is an adjective, as in Social Security, it isn't in the sense of "church social" in which it is indeed a noun.
Not everything on the Internet is correct. And with everything from less/fewer and your/you're to classical music now regarded as "elitist," hardly anyone gives a fuck about correct grammar anymore.
Well, I'm not dumbing down my résumé with "action words" and I'm not using "they" for one person. Because I do give a fuck.