Describes what compound words are and provides examples of them used in different sentences.
Each title in this colorful series introduces a part of speech and asks what it might be like to be such a word, letting readers discover how these lexicons live and how they help build sentences.
"If you were a compound word, you would be two words in one. You could take a house and a boat and make a HOUSEBOAT. You could take a boat that rows and make it a ROWBOAT. What else could you do if you were a compound word?"
