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Read the passage below, and list all the compound nouns, identifying them as open, closed, or hyphenated.
The sudden rain soaked unprepared pedestrians as raindrops quickly turned into forceful torrents. Two baby sitters giggled as they hurried across the street with their charges in strollers and just missed being splashed by a tractor-trailer. People waiting at a bus stop held newspapers over their heads, but the rain shower made such protection ineffective.

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After reading the passage and looking for the compound nouns, we can identify and categorize them in the following manner:

  1. raindrops - closed
  2. baby sitters - open
  3. tractor-trailer - hyphenated
  4. bus stop - open
  5. newspapers - closed
  6. rain shower - open

What are compound nouns?

A compound noun is a noun formed by two words. They can be made of two nouns, an adjective and a noun, or a verb and a noun. They can also be categorized as open, closed, or hyphenated.

An open compound noun is written as two separated words. That is the case with "baby sitters," "bus top," and "rain shower" in the passage.

A closed compound noun is written as one word. That is the case with "raindrops" and "newspapers" in the passage.

A hyphenated compound noun is formed by two words joined by a hyphen. That is the case with "tractor-trailer" in the passage.

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