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Compound Nouns

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What's this?

a)

foot ball

b)

football

c)

feetball

d)

footsballs

2.

What's this?

a)

cakepan

b)

potsweet

c)

pancake

d)

pan cake

3.

Name the compound noun.

a)

sunglasses

b)

sun glasses

c)

hot glass

d)

starglasses

4.

What's this?

a)

teeth paste

b)

tooth brush

c)

toothbrush

d)

tooth hair

5.
Which compound noun can you form with ALARM?
a)
clock
b)
opener
c)
measure
d)
brush
6.
Which compound noun can you form with BASE?
a)
clock
b)
stick
c)
ball
d)
brush
7.
Which compound noun can you form with LIP?
a)
reel
b)
switch
c)
stick
d)
opener
8.
Which compound noun can you form with TOOTH?
a)
reel
b)
brush
c)
measure
d)
opener
9.

He wants to invite Mila to his _________.

a)

classmate

b)

pancake

c)

birthday

d)

daydream

10.
She was in the kitchen when the ____ rang.
a)
earthquake
b)
bulldog
c)
doorbell
d)
gateway
11.

TRUE or FALSE?

Compound words are ALWAYS written separately.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

TRUE or FALSE?

Compound words may be written separately, with a hyphen (-).

a)

True

b)

False

13.
TRUE or FALSE?
The stress in a compound noun is always on the second word of the noun:
paper.CLIP.
a)
True
b)
False
14.

Which word in the sentence is a compound noun?


I ran to the grocery store to buy milk.

a)

grocery

b)

store

c)

grocery store

d)

milk

15.

Match the words together to make a common compound noun:


Ice

a)

up

b)

cycle

c)

cream

d)

house

16.

Complete the compound noun:


Hair

a)

cut

b)

ball

c)

cycle

d)

up

17.

Complete the compound noun:


Green

a)

ball

b)

friend

c)

cream

d)

house

18.

What is this?

a)

light + home = lighthome

b)

light + house = lighthouse

c)

lamp + house = lamphouse

19.

Choose the correct compound noun.


"Puan Sivanes is writing the questions on the whiteboard."

a)

whiteboard

b)

writing

c)

Puan

d)

questions on

20.

Create a compound noun by putting the two images together

a)

handbag

b)

bag purse

c)

hand writing

d)

baghand