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r Writers. By John Matthews Manly and John Arthur Powell. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. The Writer's Desk Book. By William Dana Orcutt. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. QUESTIONS 1. What is meant by a "compound"? 2. What is the purpose of a compound? 3. In what three forms do compounds appear? 4. Where should we expect to find guidance in the choice of these forms? 5. Do we so find it, and why? 6. What tendency is observable in usage regarding compounds? 7. What can the printer do? 8. Give Teall's rules, and show the application of each. 9. What is the influence of accent in compounding? 10. What is the rule about two nouns used together to form a name? 11. What is the rule about names composed of a plain noun and a verbal noun? 12. How are possessive phrases used as specific names treated? 13. What is the rule about phrases used as specific names? 14. How do you write a pair of words used as a name when the second word is a noun and the first not really an adjective? 15. How do you treat two words, not nouns, arbitrarily used as a name? 16. How do you treat a compound consisting of a suffix and a compound proper name? 17. How do you treat words so associated that their joint sense is different from their separate sense? 18. How may compounds having the force of nouns be made up? 19. How may compounds having the force of adjectives be made up? 20. How may compounds having the force of verbs be made up? 21. How may compounds having the force of adverbs be made up? 22. How are compound nouns written when one of the components is derived from a transitive verb? 23. How is a compound of a present participle and a noun written? 24. How is a compound of a present participle and a preposition treated? 25. What is the usage in compounds of _book_, _house_, _will_, _room_, _shop_, and _work_? 26. How are compounds of _maker_ and _dealer_ written? 27. What is done when nouns are combined in a descriptive phrase before a name of a person? 28. How are compounds of _store_ treated? 29. How are compounds of _fellow_ treated? 30. How are compounds of _father_, _mother_, _brother_, _sister_, _daughter_, _parent_, and _foster_ treated? 31. What compounds of _great_ are hyphenated? 32. How are compounds of _life_ and _world_ treated? 33. What is the rule about compounds of _skin_? 34. How are compounds of _master_ treated?
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