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Compound Words
When two words are used together to yield a new meaning, a compound is formed. Compound words can be written in three ways: as open compounds (spelled as two words, e.g., ice cream), closed compounds (joined to form a single word, e.g., doorknob), or hyphenated compounds (two words joined by a hyphen, e.g., long-term). Sometimes, more than two words can form a compound (e.g., mother-in-law).
The most common spelling quandary writers face is whether to write compounds as separate words, one word, or hyphenated words.
A compound word is formed when two words are combined to make a new word. It is one of the ways in which the English language is flexible and always changing, as compound words allow people to create new words as the need arises.
Chapter 25
: Compound Word
: Compound Word
Compound Word
bookseller () seller =
book
Compound Word
- Compound Noun =
- Compound Adjective =
- Compound Noun
- Noun + Noun
1.1
a glass bottle (a bottle made of glass)
a leather hat (a hat made of leather)
a diamond ring (a ring made of diamonds)
an iron gate (a gate made of iron)
1.2
a bookseller (a seller of books)
an encyclopedia salesman (a salesman of encyclopedia)
a dressmaker (a maker of dresses)
a rice merchant (a merchant of rice)
1.3
a flower vase (a vase for flowers)
a wine bottle (a bottle for wine)
a petrol barrel (a barrel for petrol)
a fruit basket (a basket for fruit) (Page 506)
a reference book (a book of reference)
a record player (a player of records)
a mathematics teacher ( teacher of mathematics)
a light switch (a switch of light)
1.5
a park pool (a pool in a park)
a country man (a man in the country)
a shop assistant (an assistant in a shop)
a garden furniture (furniture in a garden)
Present Participle or Gerund + Noun (ing )
a dancing-teacher (a teacher who is dancing)
the following-year (a year which follows)
a racing-horse (a horse that which) races)
sewing machine (a machine that sews)
swimming pool (a pool for swimming)
- Noun + Verb er, or –
a shopkeeper (a person who keeps a shop)
a hairdresser (person why dress hair)
a bus driver (a person who drives a bus)
a hair dryer (at thing that dries hair)
.4 verb er
a passer-by
a looker-on
- Noun + noun
a man-of-war
a sister-in-law
- Compound Adjective
Compound Adjective
Adjective + noun
a middle-aged man (Page 507)
a red-nosed boy
bad-tempered woman
an old-fashioned idea
- Noun + Adjective
the stone-cold floor
nut-brown eyes
a blood-red dress
- Adjective + Adjective
a tall-dark man
bitter-sweet cake
brown-grey beard
- Noun + Noun
a sound-proof room
water-proof cloth
waterproof glass
- Adjective + Noun
a heavy weight boxer
upper-class people
- Noun( adjective, adverb) +Past Participle
the snow-covered mountain
a well-trained horse
a ready-made shirt
a badly-written letter
- Noun ( adjective, adverb ,Present
grass-cutting machinery
a quickly-growing baby
high-flying aeroplane
night-blooming flowers
- Given phrases + Noun
a broken-hearted man (Page 508)
a worth-while experiment
a six-year-old boy
an up-to-date radio
the midnight-urgent news
9.(other different forms)
a three-hour work
three hours’ work
a twenty-minute conversation
a twenty minutes’ conversation
1) postcard, toothbrush, blackbird,
homework, headmaster, grandfather, housework, football, swordsman, salesman, etc,
2) (Hyphen):- snow man, taxi metre, mother tongue, morning market, office hours, shop hours, station master, etc.
3) (Hyphen):- fire-engine room-mate, money order, tea-time, timetable, teamwork, sun-dial, snow storm, etc.
4) Verb-ing +noun (Hyphen)
Swinging-pool
dining-room
dancing-room
weighing-machine
sewing-machine
singing-roon
sleeping-room (Page 509)
Choose the best answer for each of the following sentences.
Which of these is a compound word?
- a clever boy
- light meal
- an iron gate
- a close friend
- This is a…………………. blouse
- well-dressing
- badly-dressed
- good-dressed
- bad-dressing
- Somsri helped me to sell things in the shop. We called her…………………………..
- an assistant shop
- shop assistant
- helper shop
- a shopping helper
- A servant who suffers a long time is………
- a long-suffering servant
- a longed-suffering servant
- a long –suffered servant
- a long-suffer servant
- His grandmother is old. She has grey hair. She is a………………….woman.
- grey hair old
- old-grey hair
- grey-haired old
- grey-old-hair
- Of the man is forty years old, we always call him…
- a middle-aged man
- aged-middle man
- man middle-aged
- middle-aged man
- This machine is used for sewing. It is called.
- a sew machine
- machine sewing
- a sewing machine
- sewing a machine
- If the floor, walls and ceiling of a room are made so that sound cannot pass through them, we
say that the room is…………………….
- sound-proof
- sounded-proof
c.proof-sound
- proofed-sound
- She said that she saw the……………….man going into the shop.
a thirty-year-old
- thirty-years-old
- thirty-old-years
- old-thirty years
- They are looking forward to…
a vacation week
- a vacation of the week
- a week’s vacation
- a week of vacation
- C 2. B 3. B 4.A 5.C 6. A 7. C 8.A 9.A 10.C (Page 510)