What compound nouns can I make with these words?
a) news, parking, street, subway, taxi, traffic, train, bicycle, bus
b) garage, jam, lane, light, space, stand, station, stop, sytem
Are these compound nouns correct? Can I add some more?
News: newsstand
Parking: parking garage, parking space, parking bycicle, parking bus
Street: streetlight
Subway: subway station, subway stop, subway system
Taxi: taxi lane, taxi stand
Bycicle: bycicle lane, bycicle stand, bycicle station, bycicle stop
Bus: bus station, bus stop, bus system
Traffic: traffic jam, trafiic light
Train: train station, train stop, train system
Some of the ones you have listed are compound nouns, but some of them are not. Most of them actually seem to be nouns being modified by a second noun functioning as an adjective. You can learn about it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnhYJ4w0HqU
News: newspaper, newsreader
Parking: parking permit, parking fine, parking ticket
Street: street sweeper
Subway: subway network, subway map, subway line, subway users, subway pass, subway ticket, subway worker, and of course, Subway sandwich! ;)
Taxi: taxi driver, taxi rank, taxi fare
Bicycle: bicycle pump, bicycle stand, bicycle chain, bicycle shop, bicycle repair kit
Bus: bus driver, bus conductor, bus fare, bus ticket, bus pass
Traffic: traffic cone, traffic warden
Train: train driver, train ticket, train tracks, train carriage, train engine, and (in Britain but probably not in Japan or Germany) train delays.
