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Compound



tommy1996
Vietnam

Compound
 
Please tell me the words like " car-making" "english-speaking" are compound adjectives or compound nouns. And Ving here is participle or gerund. Thanks

22 Mar 2017      





redcamarocruiser
United States

It depends on the rest of the sentence. In the following sentence making is a gerund, acting as a noun.
 
By this time next year, the doors will have closed on the Australian car manufacturing industry forever — after almost a century of car making. 

23 Mar 2017