My English teacher said that “artwork” isn’t a word and she said it was two different words. Then she put “work of art”
Welcome Monsterr.
As you are an ABC, the Mods and crowd would appreciate posting more revealing thread titles.
As for the dispute over a word posted, what in fact IS your point? Is that the same teacher you corrected in your first post?
If so, why not creating a thread about " correcting your English teacher"
Is ‘‘bus station’’ one or two words.
Merriam Webster says it is a word:
You can use google to compare the relative frequency of words or phrases (as an informal spelling or grammar checker) by using quotation marks. See the example below.
350 million occurrences of the term “artwork” would suggest that it is a word, contrary to what your teacher might have suggested.
A google search will also lead you to articles which may provide some insight into areas of confusion regarding English usage.
From [wikipedia]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_of_art[/wikipedia]
For such basic inquiries, why not try doing a little bit of your own research first?
What exactly was the sentence? Both artwork and works of art are valid words/phrases, but how you use them and their meaning can change.
The gallery was full of good artwork.
The gallery was full of good works of art.
These are equivalent in meaning, the galley contains lots of good paintings, sculptures, photographs etc.
The picture was a work of art. Now the meaning has changed, this picture is exceptionally good.
The picture was an artwork. This is not a valid sentence.
an artwork can be a picture, though.
If you lost points on a test or essay, I would be annoyed. But if she/he just wanted to teach you a better way to say it, then it’s OK.
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holy shait! :loco: 
One possibility: did she want you to say, for example, “five works of art” rather than “five artworks”? Because if that was the case, then I’d prefer “works of art” too - “artworks” sounds odd.
Art works. It works real well.
We like it like that.
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Your teacher is a moron.
Hey, don’t break it down like that…
Hey, don’t break it down like that…
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Not saying the OP is a moron, just his/her teacher.
Op may be swell and brilliant for all I know, his/her English is better than his/her teacher.
Yeah. (Bus stop is also a word, by the way.) There are some simple tests that do a good job for determining if something is a word. Google it.
[quote=“archylgp”]Yeah. (Bus stop is also a word, by the way.) There are some simple tests that do a good job for determining if something is a word. Google it.[/quote] But knowing if something is or isn’t a word is not a good test of language proficiency – I can parse Japanese pretty well but I can hardly speak it.
maybe she was just trying to explain that it was a combination of the words ‘art’ and ‘work’?
Then what does ‘teh’ mean?
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Lol. 
I tried Google but didn’t come up with anything, so I’ll just write two simple methods out here:
(1) Separability: if you can add something between the free morphemes (a free morpheme is a unit of speech that can stand alone like ‘art’ or’ work’) then it is probably not a compound word (= not grammatical); for example: ‘bus stop’; bus big stop’; ‘big house’; big red house’.
(2) Meaning: if the meaning of a compound word is different from its free morphemes together, then it is probably a compound word; for example; ‘bus stops’; ‘bus stop’; and the work of art / artwork example above.