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Compare container names with their contents and practise time and age modifiers.",2,"word_sort",[13,32,55,77,96,119],{"id":14,"sentenceTemplate":15,"displayOrder":16,"explanation":17,"blanks":18,"payload":19},"01a0e1ab-d7ef-7188-9599-27460f37ddeb","Sort each compound noun by whether it names transport or a place.",0,"The main noun usually comes last and tells us what the whole compound names. A modifier tells us its purpose or connection. Moving bus from the main-noun position to the modifier position changes whether the compound names a vehicle or something connected with buses.",[],{"items":20,"categories":31},[21,24,26,29],{"text":22,"category":23},"school bus","Transport",{"text":25,"category":23},"airport bus",{"text":27,"category":28},"bus shelter","A place",{"text":30,"category":28},"bus garage",[23,28],{"id":33,"sentenceTemplate":34,"displayOrder":35,"explanation":36,"blanks":37,"payload":38},"01a0e1ab-d7ef-71e4-9599-27460ff95caa","Sort the phrases into names for types of containers and descriptions of their contents.",1,"A noun before the container noun names its type or purpose; the container may be empty. Here, of introduces what the container holds. For example, an empty milk bottle is still a milk bottle, but a bottle of milk contains milk.",[],{"items":39,"categories":54},[40,43,45,48,50,52],{"text":41,"category":42},"a bowl of soup","Contents of a container",{"text":44,"category":42},"a cup of coffee",{"text":46,"category":47},"a soup bowl","Type of container",{"text":49,"category":47},"a coffee cup",{"text":51,"category":47},"a water bottle",{"text":53,"category":42},"a bottle of water",[47,42],{"id":56,"sentenceTemplate":57,"displayOrder":10,"explanation":58,"blanks":59,"payload":60},"01a0e1ab-d7ef-721c-9599-274610c4e4e2","Look only at the first word: sort these compounds by whether their noun modifier is singular or plural.","Noun modifiers usually stay singular even when the main noun is plural. Sports and clothes are exceptions with plural first words. The final plural does not decide the column: look at the modifier. For example, several shops selling toys are toy shops, not toys shops.",[],{"items":61,"categories":76},[62,65,67,70,72,74],{"text":63,"category":64},"sports clubs","Plural noun modifier",{"text":66,"category":64},"clothes shops",{"text":68,"category":69},"shoe shops","Singular noun modifier",{"text":71,"category":69},"toy shops",{"text":73,"category":64},"sports bags",{"text":75,"category":69},"car doors",[69,64],{"id":78,"sentenceTemplate":79,"displayOrder":80,"explanation":81,"blanks":82,"payload":83},"01a0e1ab-d7ef-7250-9599-27461179d7cb","Sort these compound nouns by whether their first part is a noun or an adjective.",3,"A compound noun can begin with another noun or with an adjective. Rain and tooth are nouns; black and green are colour adjectives. Writing the parts together does not change this distinction. For example, a football has the noun foot as its first part.",[],{"items":84,"categories":95},[85,88,90,93],{"text":86,"category":87},"raincoat","Noun first",{"text":89,"category":87},"toothbrush",{"text":91,"category":92},"blackboard","Adjective first",{"text":94,"category":92},"greenhouse",[92,87],{"id":97,"sentenceTemplate":98,"displayOrder":99,"explanation":100,"blanks":101,"payload":102},"01a0e1ab-d7ef-7280-9599-27461242c0a0","Sort the phrases by whether the number and unit describe a following noun or give a duration or age after a verb.",4,"A number-unit modifier before a noun uses a singular unit and hyphens. An ordinary duration or age after a verb uses a plural unit with numbers greater than one. For example, a two-hour class lasts two hours.",[],{"items":103,"categories":118},[104,107,109,111,114,116],{"text":105,"category":106},"a four-week course","Modifier before a noun",{"text":108,"category":106},"a seven-year-old child",{"text":110,"category":106},"a twenty-minute lesson",{"text":112,"category":113},"lasts four weeks","Duration or age after a verb",{"text":115,"category":113},"is seven years old",{"text":117,"category":113},"takes twenty minutes",[106,113],{"id":120,"sentenceTemplate":121,"displayOrder":122,"explanation":123,"blanks":124,"payload":125},"01a0e1ab-d7ef-72b0-9599-2746124dc3be","Sort these family compounds by whether they name one person or more than one person.",5,"In family compounds ending in in-law, the family noun is the main noun. Add the plural ending to that noun and leave in-law unchanged. The plural ending therefore appears inside the compound, not at its end.",[],{"items":126,"categories":137},[127,130,132,135],{"text":128,"category":129},"sister-in-law","One person",{"text":131,"category":129},"daughter-in-law",{"text":133,"category":134},"sisters-in-law","More than one person",{"text":136,"category":134},"daughters-in-law",[129,134],"\u002Fuploads\u002Fimages\u002Fgpimg_95160d0f-472b-4b0a-8872-e895649d2f01_hero.webp?v=1790492530",{"title":140,"slug":141,"language":142,"level":143},"Compound Nouns and Noun Modifiers","compound-nouns-and-noun-modifiers","en","A2"]