Question

What are compound proper nouns?

Answer 1

A compound noun is a noun made up of two or more words that form a noun with a meaning of its own.
A proper noun is the name or title of a specific person, place, or thing.

Explanation:

There are three types of compound nouns :

• closed (football, bathtub, highway, etc.)
• hyphenated (mother-in-law, t-shirt, x-ray, etc.)
• open spaced (paint brush, ice cream, school bus, etc.)

Examples of compound, proper nouns :

• Nelson Mandela
• South Africa

• Eiffel Tower

• Secretary-General of the United Nations

• Winston-Salem, North Carolina

• Cheez-It (crackers)

• Longfellow (American poet)

• Queensland, Australia

• "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell