VI. Compound nouns and noun phrases

Exercise 51. Draw a line from each word on the left to the word in the middle to make a compound word. Then draw a line from each word in the middle to a word on the right to make another compound word.

1. day sand fly

2. out paper back

3. lunch sleep law

4. sand wood mate

5. count break ways

6. fresh time nap

7. snap room fast

8. meal down box

9. over light walk

10. hand out chuck

11. quick water house

12. fire book keeper

13. copy dragon shelf

14. head side stairs

15. note cat melon

Exercise 52. Rewrite the sentences, making a compound.

The woman was 74. – She was a 74-year-old woman.

1. The building has ten storeys. 2. The flight lasted three hours. 3. The strike lasted four days. 4. The book has 200 pages. 5. The boys were ten years old. 6. The television series has ten parts. 7. The bottle holds two litres. 8. Each of the tickets cost ten pounds. 9. The woman was 38. 10. We walked for six miles.

Exercise 53. Read the paragraph and correct the mistakes where necessary in the underlined words.

When you go to the supermarket can you get four (1) lamb's chops, (2) a mineral water bottle, and some of those (3) duck's eggs that I like. I work at the top of a (4) six-storeys office block. The view over the city is normally very good, but at the moment the windows are filthy. We just can't get (5) a windows cleaner who will climb up so high. A lot of the (6) offices-workers in the building have started to complain about it.

A: I can't find that new (7) two-pieces suit I bought last week. I remember putting it on (8) a coat hanger, but I can't see it in anywhere in the wardrobe.

B: Perhaps you hung it on (9) the door back.

A: Ah, yes, it's here on (10) the door handle.

Exercise 54. Fill in the sentences with the appropriate phrase.

break down	bring up	buy out	check out
come out	cover up	hand out	put in
print out	rise up	take in	turn around

1. Car sales were lower than normal during the summer, but dealers are hoping for a ___ between now and the end of the year. 2. Of all the possible ___ of the Mars exploration project, they hadn't expected to find plant life on the planet. 3. He had a very ___ sheltered and his parents didn't like him to go out of the house alone. 4. There are two ___ for this lecture: one contains an outline, and the other a list of further reading. 5. A ___ in communication between the publisher and the printer led to a misunderstanding and only 2000 copies of the book were produced rather than 20,000. 6. Weeks of demonstrations against the present economic policies have turned into a popular ___ against the military government. 7. Mr King was one of the four directors of the company who led a management ___ in 2003. 8. The ___ of students this year has fallen by 5 per cent as a result of cuts in government funding to the universities. 9. Allegations of ___ a of the long-term effects of industrial pollution have been denied by the Environment Minister. 10. She tried to go through the ___ at the supermarket without paying.