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One little girl was very...; she kept shouting during lunch and then threw food all over the floor.. She's just got a ...job; she works three hours a day on Mondays, Wednesdays and Frida[r]
(1)OCTOBER 23rd, 2009
COMPOUND NOUNS AND COMPOUND ADJECTIVES A COMPOUND NOUNS
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 COMPOUND ADJECTIVES
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 two-year-old child
PRACTICE I Form compound nouns with the following words given:
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:
………
II Form compound adjectives with the following words given
1 A cart which is drawn by a horse a horsedrawn 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 ………
III Complete the sentences below with the appropriate compound adiectives
a badly-behaved d well-off g good-looking j twenty-second m southeast
b short-sleeved e ten-pound h left-handed k well-known n brand-new
(2)OCTOBER 23rd, 2009
1 They were both wearing shirts We stayed in a hotel
3 There is a shop in London which sells things for people 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 She's just got a job; she works three hours a day on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays It was a very article: I noticed several punctuation mistakes and lots of spelling mistakes 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 ?