[78-L] Identification of a test pressing

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Well I'm not an English major but I believe that "car" is an adjective in "car tire", as is "chicken" in "chicken soup".  What about "spare" in "spare tire"?  You cannot call either of the first two examples a "car" or a "chicken" without the noun, but you can call a "spare tire" just a "spare" so is that a noun or an adjective?  Sometimes you can call a combined word just by the adjective, such as a cello.

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>In the phrase "ladies man," the word "ladies" is an attributive noun (also known as a noun adjunct). That is, it's a noun that modifies another noun, as in "car tire" or "chicken soup." The phrase "ladies' man" uses a possessive, and would mean a man who belongs to some ladies. A lady's man would be a man who belonged to a single lady.
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>>Wouldn't that be "ladies' man?"
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