Word formation compound nouns - Compound nouns 01

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
4
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]
6
 Check up the meanings in the dictionary. [ÅCLICK!]
7
 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
10
 bee-sting bloodshed catcall daybreak earthquake footprint handshake heartbeat 
 landslide leasehold nightfall rainfall sunrise toothache