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All except one of the following words are examples of compound nouns. Which noun is NOT compound?a. toothpaste
b. bedroom
c. gaggle
d. balance beam

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Answer 1
Answer: Answer : c. gaggle

All the choices above are compound nouns except "gaggle". Compound nouns are words that is made up of two or more words with different meaning that are joined together to create a single noun with an absolutely different meaning from the two previous nouns. Toothpaste is a combination of tooth and paste while bedroom is a combination of bed and room. Lastly, balance beam is a combination of balance and beam. Gaggle on the other hand simply is a noun which refers to the flock of geese.

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Locate the complete adjective phrase and the noun modified. "I heard the voices of the children."

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The correct answer is "of the children". This adjectival phrase is used to modify and further explain the noun "voices".

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voices is the noun (person, place, thing) and of the children describes voices so it is the adjective phrase.

Explanation:

Leticia was seriously annoyed by the sound of her upstairs neighbors' children playing.

Here, the adjective phrase of her upstairs neighbors' children playing modifies the noun sound . This example shows that the definition of a prepositional phrase--a preposition and its object--needs to include this clarification: and any modifiers of that object. Do you see the participle that is part of this prepositional phrase? Playing modifies children; that is why it is part of the adjective phrase also.

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The correct answer would be A.

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The syllogism is used (A) to show that all men are mortal and therefore Ivan Ilyich, a man, must die.

This is a logical argument in which Ivan believes that Caius is a man and that all men are mortal, then Caius too must be a mortal.

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