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Some words look like compound words, but are not actually compound words:
carpet acorn office hemlock
car + pet --> Although carpet is made of the letters which make the words "car" and "pet", the meaning of carpet is not the result of a combination of the ideas "car" and "pet". a + corn --> You can divide acorn into the words "a" and "corn", but the meaning of acorn has nothing to do with either of these words. off + ice --> The word office can be divided into "off" + "ice", but its meaning is not made of these two ideas. hem + lock --> The meanings of the words "hem" and "lock" do not combine to help us to understand the meaning of "hemlock".