Basic English Syntax with Exercises

Exercise 3

Decide what the syntactic head of the following compounds is and where it is in the structure. Comment on whether the meaning of the compounds may be composed of the meanings of its elements.

(1)apasser-byfcatwalk
bgreenhousegbrother-in-law
credneckhday job
dcoffee tableidouble sheepshead knot
eattorney generaljmousetrap

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