Compound Nouns Adjectives

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<b> OCTOBER 23rd, 2009 </b>

<b>COMPOUND NOUNS AND COMPOUND ADJECTIVES </b>

<b>A. COMPOUND NOUNS </b>

1. Noun + Noun tooth + paste computer + game toothpaste computer game

2. Adjective + Noun monthly + ticket green + house monthly ticket greenhouse

3. Gerund + Noun swimming + pool driving + licence swimming-pool driving-licence

4. Noun + Verb hair + cut rain + fall haircut rainfall

5. Noun + Adverb passer + by hanger + on passer-by hanger-on

6. Noun + Gerund fruit + picking coal + mining fruit-picking coal-mining

7. Adverb + Verb out + put over + throw output overthrow

8. Adverb + Noun on + looker by + stander onlooker bystander

<b>B. COMPOUND ADJECTIVES </b>

1. Adjective + adjective dark + brown red + hot dark-brown redhot

2. Noun + Adjective snow + white sea + sick snow-white seasick

3. Adjective + Present participle good + looking sweet + smelling good-looking sweet-smelling

4. Noun + Present participle heart + breaking fortune + seeking heartbreaking fortune-seeking

5. Adverb + Present participle hard + working ever + changing hardworking ever-changing

6. Adjective + Past participle ready + made long + lived ready-made long-lived

7. Noun + Past participle home + made horse + drawn homemade horse-drawn

8. Adjective + Noun + -ed blue + eye + ed good + nature + ed blue –eyed good-natured

9. Noun + Noun + -ed lion + heart + ed coffee + color +ed lion-hearted coffee-colored

10. Words well-to-do a <i>two-year-old</i> child

<b>PRACTICE </b>
<i><b>I. Form compound nouns with the following words given: </b></i>

1. A knife for cutting paper:

 ……….

2. A glass for holding wine:

 ……….

3. A box for holding matches:

 ……….

4. A desk for writing at:

 ……….

5. A man whose profession is lending money:

 ……….

6. A machine for washing clothes:

 ……….

7. A wall made of brick:

 ……….

8. A room where you have meals:

 ……….

9. A room in which you sleep:

 ……….

10. A man who gets coal out of the ground:

 ……….

<i><b>II. Form compound adjectives with the following words given. </b></i>

1. A cart which is drawn by a horse.  a <i><b>horsedrawn</b></i> cart

2. A girl who has a round face.  ……….

3. A flower which smells very good.  ……….

4. A donkey which has long ears.  ……….

5. A baby who has just been born.  ……….

6. A man whose behaviour is good.  ……….

7. A lady whose hair is curly.  ……….

8. An animal which has warm blood.  ……….

9. Grass which is covered by dew.  ……….

10. Plants which are beaten by rain.  ………

<i><b>III. Complete the sentences below with the appropriate compound adiectives. </b></i>

<i><b>a. badly-behaved d. well-off </b></i> <i><b>g. good-looking </b></i> <i><b>j. twenty-second </b></i> <i><b>m. southeast </b></i>

<i><b>b. short-sleeved e. ten-pound </b></i> <i><b>h. left-handed </b></i> <i><b>k. well-known </b></i> <i><b>n. brand-new </b></i>

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<b> OCTOBER 23rd_{, 2009}</b>

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1. They were both wearing...shirts.
2. We stayed in a...hotel.

3. There is a shop in London which sells things for...people.
4. Tam Vy's husband has just bought a...car.

5. The airport is about ten miles...of the city centre.

6. One little girl was very...; she kept shouting during lunch and then threw food all over the floor.
7. She's just got a ...job; she works three hours a day on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
8. It was a very... article: I noticed several punctuation mistakes and lots of spelling mistakes.
9. They're very ... . so they can afford to go to expensive restaurants.

10. It's a... walk to the house, but it takes much less than that in the car.
11. Ms. Tham Tam Vy's got a little stall in the market where she sells ... things.

12. When I saw her last night, she was dancing with a very... young man in a white suit.
13. I was astonished when the man at the next table gave the waiter a ...note as a tip.
14. Have you ever met a...actor or politician ?

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