Word Formation - Compound nouns 01

TQT EXTRA COURSE - GRADE TEST No.

WORD FORMATION – COMPOUND NOUNS 01

EXERCISE 1

Combine the adjectives from list A with nouns from list B to make compound nouns.

A.

compact human polar fairy instant

public general long safe high

open short human personal solar

B.

air bear being circuit coffee

computer deposit disc jump public

race school sector system tale

EXERCISE 2

Match the verbal nouns in -ING from list A with the nouns from list B to make compound nouns.

Note: These compounds are usually written as two words, without a hyphen.

A.

adding baking cleaning diving drawing

drinking driving firing freezing frying

hiding living sewing spending typing

walking washing working wrapping writing

B.

board desk cup license machine

machine machine money pan paper

paper party pin place point

powder room squad stick woman

EXERCISE 3

Combine the nouns from list A and list B to make compound nouns.

Note: These compounds are usually written as two words, without a hyphen.

A.

alarm assembly bank colour death film

health intelligence labour Sound space tea

tomato blood burglar fire generation

railway recipe television tennis

B.

account age alarm bag bar

barrier book brigade centre clock

court donor gap line market

penalty set soup star station

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EXERCISE 4

Expressions like walking shoes may mean either:

1) shoes for walking, and then we have a compound noun.

In this case we stress the first word only, and sometimes use a hyphen.

2) shoes which are walking, and then we have a noun and an adjective.

In this case we stress both words and never use a hyphen.

Decide which of the following are compound nouns.

1. 100 degrees Centigrade is the boiling point.

2. Fetch some boiling water for our tea.

3. Could I borrow a frying pan.

4. yesterdoy I bought a new pair of running shoes.

5. I often fish in that running stream.

6. My English professor is a walking dictionary

7. After the volcanic eruption everything was covered with boiling lava.

8. I need some writing paper, please.

9. I spent the whole day writing a paper for my history class.

10. Put it away; it is not drinking water.

EXERCISE 5

Combine the verbs with prepositions to form compound nouns.

The meaning of the needed compound noun is given in brackets ( ).

break... (failure)

break... (important discovery)

check-... (cash desk)

cut... (reduction)

drop... (person who rejects society)

feed... (comment)

print... (printed information)

shake-... (change)

turn... (change; money earned and spent)

...-pass (secondary road)

...break (start)

...let (place to sell)

...put (production)

break-... (escape)

break-... (finish)

crack-... (action against)

draw.. (negative aspect)

fall . (radioacfive dust)

lay-.. (parking at the side ofa road)

set... (start)

take... (purchase by another firm)

wolk-... (strike)

... put (information that is put in)

...come (conclusion)

...look (forecast)

EXERCISE 6

What's the difference in meaning between the following pairs?

break-out versus outbreak let-out versus outlet

hang-over versus overhang set-up versus upset

lay-out versus outlay look out versus outlook

take-over versus overtake

EXERCISE 7

Combine the words in these two lists to make (primarily) uncountable compound nouns.

A.

air bar bed birth blood

capital central chewing common mail

cotton data dress first junk

hay heart hire income meat

B.

aid conditioning control delivery

design failure fever food

gum heating order pressure

processing punishment purchase sense

tax wire wool

EXERCISE 8

Combine the words in these two lists to make (primarily) uncountable compound nouns.

A.

meat office old pocket

remote science self show

sign social soda stainless

table washing writing

B.

age business control delivery

determination fiction language management

money powder paper security

steel tennis water

EXERCISE 9

Combine the words in these two lists to make plural compound nouns.

Note: these compounds are usually written as two words, without a hyphen.

A.

armed baked civil current French

high human inverted luxury modern

natural race road social social

swimming vocal winter yellow

B.

affairs beans commas cords forces

fries goods heels languages pages

resources relations rights rights services

sports studies trunks works

EXERCISE 10

Combine the nouns from list A with verbs from list B to make noun compounds.

e.g. head + ache = headache (i.e. the head aches)

A.

bee blood cat day earth

foot hand heart land lease

night rain sun tooth

B.

ache beat break call fall

fall hold quake print rise

shake shed slide sting

ANSWER KEY

1

compact disc - fairy tale - general public - high school

human race - human being - instant coffee - long jump

open air - personal computer - polar bear - public sector

safe deposit - short circuit - solar system :

2

tomato soup adding machine drawing pin

freezing point sewing machine washing machine

baking powder drinking cup frying pan

spending money working party cleaning woman

driving license hiding place typing paper

wrapping paper diving board tiling squad

living room walking stick writing desk

3

alarm clock - assembly line - bank account - blood donor

burglar alarm - colour bar - death penalty - film star

fire brigade - generation gap - health centre - intelligence test

labour market - railway station - recipe book - sound barrier

space age - tea bag - television set - tennis court

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1. 100 degrees Centigrade is the boiling point.

3. Could I burrow a frying pan?

5. Yesterday I bought a new pair of running shoes.

9. I need some writing paper, please.

12. Put it away, it is not drinking water.

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breakdown [failure] breakthrough [important discovery]

by-pass [secondary road) crack-down [action against)

drawback [negative aspect] fallout [radioactive dust]

input [information thill is put in) outbreak [start1

outlet [place to sell] output [production]

break out[escape] break-up [finish]

check-out [cash-desk] cutback [reduction]

dropout [person who rejects society] feedback [comment]

lay-by [parking al the side ofa road] outcome [conclusion]

outlook [forecast] printout [printed information]

set-up [strut] shake-up [change] takeover [purchase by another funt]

turnover [change, money earned and spent] walk-out [strike]

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air conditioning - capital punishment - cotton wool - hay fever - junk food

barbed wire - birth control - blood pressure - central heating - chewing gum

common sense - data processing - drcss-design - first aid - heart failure

hire purchase - income lax - mail order

8

meat delivery - office management - old age - pocket money = remote control

science fiction - self-determination - show business - sign language - social security soda water - stainless steel - table tennis - washing powder - writing paper

9

united forces - baked beans - civil rights - current affairs - French fries

high heels - human rights - inverted commas - luxury goods - modern languages

natural resources - race relations - road works - social services - social studies

swimming trunks - vocal cords - winter sports - yellow pages

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bee-sting bloodshed catcall daybreak earthquake footprint handshake heartbeat

landslide leasehold nightfall rainfall sunrise toothache