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Classifications of English compounds - Coggle Diagram
Classifications of English compounds
According to the parts of speech
adjectives, such as : free-for-all, power-happy
verbs, such as : to honey-moon, to baby-sit, to henpeck
adverbs, such as: downdeep, headfirst
nouns, such as : baby-moon, globe-trotter
prepositions, such as: into, within
numerals, such as : fifty-five
According to the way components are joined together
neutral
syntactical
morphological
According to their structure
compound words proper which consist of two stems
compound words consisting of three or more stems
derivational compounds
compound-shortened words
According to the relations between the components
coordinative compounds
subordinative compounds
According to the order of the components
indirect order, e.g. nuclear-free
direct order, e.g. kill-joy