Vocabulary

Compound Adjectives

Read the following sentences from your text and notice the underlined words.
  1. Henry and Mrs. Slater stagger in with a pretty, old-fashioned bureau.
  2. Mrs. Slater rose briskly at length in a business-like tone.
  3. His bright eyes twinkle under his heavy, reddish-gray eye brows.
  4. I'll not be quiet. Oh, I call it a double-faced behaviour.

The underlined words in the above four sentences are 'compound adjectives' in hyphenated form. A compound adjective is an adjective that comprises more than one word. Hyphens are used to link the words together to show that they constitute one adjective

Make compound adjectives choosing one word from list 'A' and another word from list 'B' and fill in the blanks with them

List"A" List"B" Compound Adjective

clear  last  eg. clear-sighted
new   sunk   ______________________
cold  hair ______________________
four  blood  ______________________
curly  day  ______________________
well  star  ______________________
half  read  ______________________
half  read  ______________________
five  lay  ______________________
peacock  blue  ______________________
long  sight  ______________________


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