Compound Words

What are the elements of a compound word?

• Two letters that blend to make one sound
• A combination of two words that create a single word and meaning
• The meaning of a word
• A word that has the same meaning as another word

Identify the compound word.

• Postmaster
• Manager
• Information
• Beautiful

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Paperweight is a compound word. You can tell from the two parts of the word that a paperweight is...

• someone who is really heavy
• how much your homework weighs
• what you put on papers to keep them from blowing away
• a special scale your doctor uses to weigh

What words make up the compound word dragonfly?

• dra, gone, and fly
• butter and fly
• dragon and fly
• drag, on , and fly

Which one is NOT a compound word?

• question
• racehorse
• tablespoon
• jigsaw

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