grammatical doctrine recognizes that in general in the case of the compounds of "two nouns that are written but which constitute separate lexical unit in which the second element providing certain information, only mark the plural in the first " years light, balloons, child prodigies , etc. [1]. But there are numerous cases in which the second value is used with an adjective and then hesitate to use: you can say, " pirated books or pirated books , leading companies as leading . For bond is more usual than not acquire that value adjective but in any case this is not a grammatical error and rather shows a tendency to give way adjectival function for acquiring the noun by the agreement.
[1] Manual of New grammar of the English language. Madrid, Espasa, 2010 (3.2.1), p. 37-38.
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