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Denominal Nouns

I'm way behind schedule this afternoon. My doctor started me on medication for my tremors yesterday and it put me under for a long, long time.Yesterday we looked at attributive nouns, which one person said was new to them. There ten different classes of nous, many of which may be unfamiliar. We'll take a look. Today nouns are called denominal nouns. The word itself doesn't meet with spell check but is correct. These nouns usually measure an amount and are created by adding a suffix to another word, which writers do a lot. An example might be "cupful".

Today's assignment is to use three demoninal nouns in three sentences and highlight the denominal nouns some way,

Please give me a teaspoonful of that medication

I need a cupfulof oil.

I have a roomful of people visiting.