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An attributive noun, also called a noun adjunct, refers to a noun placed before another noun to modify it, like "dog" in "dog catcher" and "dog food", "heart" in "heart surgery", "running" in "running shoes", "employee" in "employee compensation", and "Peter" in "Peter Principle". It is an alternative to a prepositional phrase, like "food for dogs" or "surgery of the heart". You can use a predicate test to distinguish a noun adjunct from an adjective.
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Is it incorrect to refer to a set of things by using the singular form of the objects it con... [duplicate]
I'm sorry I couldn't word that better, the following example will hopefully clarify:
As you can see, the teacher refered to the bank of words as "word bank", as opposed to "words bank". Which one i …
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