2018 Grand Tour Questions

[xander84]

(05-22-2018 12:44 PM)Frump Wrote:  Compound words are two or more words which when combined have a completely different meaning. For example words like ice cream, fireman, or up-to-date are compound words.

So, if simple compound words don't count, do compound words like "post office", "breakfast", "northwest" and "southeast" count? I'm pretty confused now.

Maybe you simply meant the hyphen makes "best-preserved" a single word which ends with "ed" and I should just avoid confusing English rules regarding compound words?

I didn't say that all simple compound words don't count.

You are correct that I meant that that specific hyphenated compound word does not count.
"best-preserved" would not count because it ends in "ed"

Those others you list are fine, since they have a single word that ends in "st".