1. According to the parts of speech compounds are subdivided into:

a)  nouns, such as: baby-moon,table-lamp, table-spoon, bookshop,

reading-room;

b)adjectives, such as: first-class,power-happy, down-market;

dark-blue,red-hot;

c)  verbs, such as: to honey-moon,to baby-sit, to henpeck; to

broadcast;

d)adverbs, such as: downdeep,somewhere, everywhere, nowhere,

headfirst;

e)  prepositions, such as: into,within;

f)  numerals, such as: fifty-five,twenty-six;

g)pronouns, such as: everyone,somebody, someone, nobody,

nothing.

2. According to the way of components joined together compounds aredivided into:

•       morphological compounds where components are joined by linking elements: vowels «o» or «i» or the consonant «s», e.g.astrospace, handicraft, sportsman;

•       syntactical compounds where the components are joined by means of form word stems withthe help of linking elements represented by prepositions or conjunctions.

Eg.: here-and-now,free-for-all, hide-and-seek, do-or-die, lily-ofthe-valley.

3. According to the structure compounds are subdivided into:

•       neutral or compounds properwhich are formed by combining together two stems without any joining morpheme,e.g. ball-point, bedroom, sunflower,girlfriend;

•       derivational compounds haveaffixes in their structure, e.g. earminded,new-comer, story-teller, long-legged, blue-eyed;

•       compound words consisting ofthree or more stems, e.g.

cornflower-blue,eggshell-thin, marry-go-round, singer-songwriter;

•       compound-shortened or contractedwords have a shortened stem in their structure, e.g. Eurodollar, tourmobile,motocross. There are also compound-shortened words where the fi rstcomponent is an initial abbreviation with the alphabetical reading and thesecond one is a complete word, compare the letter U standing for upper classes in such combinations as U-pronunciation, U-language and otherexamples, V-day (victory day), E-Day (entrance day), H-way,(high way) etc.