Compound adjectives

Draw a line between matching items in each column

1. Easy Hand
2. Second Going
3. Badly Written
4. Short handed
5. Good Class
6. First New
7. Brand Looking
8. Left known
9. Part Sleeved
10. Well time

Fill in the blank with the right word in the next column!

well-informed tight-fisted long-lasting life-threatening mouth-watering

good-looking absent-minded open-minded red-handed English-speaking

1. Long time ago, there lived a poor ……….young man in West Sumatera.
2. This was quite normal, and their professor had said there was no cure, but no ……..effect either.
3. Its role in alleviating the pain and distress of non ……… illness is ignored.
4. The waitress came round with a tray of ……….cream cakes.
5. He plans to live in an …………country
6. The criminal was caught ……... He was seen steeling the young lady’s handbag.
7. People should be tolerant towards other cultures. They should be………….
8. Sarah couldn’t answer the teacher’s question because she was……...
9. Don’t expect him to invite you for dinner. He is………
10. To be a translator you need to be ……..about linguistics.

Long time ago, there lived a poor good-looking young man in West Sumatera.
This was quite normal, and their professor had said there was no cure, but no long-lasting effect either.
Its role in alleviating the pain and distress of non life-threatening illness is ignored.
The waitress came round with a tray of mouth-watering cream cakes.
He plans to live in an English speaking country
The criminal was caught red-handed. He was seen steeling the young lady’s handbag.
People should be tolerant towards other cultures. They should be open-minded
Sarah couldn’t answer the teacher’s question because she was absent-minded
Don’t expect him to invite you for dinner. He is tight-fisted
To be a translator you need to be well-informed about linguistics.

Match the following words to make compound adjective

1. Thick~ A. aged
2. Good~ B. famous
3. World~ C. made
4. Self~ D. humored
5. Left~ E. skinned
6. Middle~ F. handed

Match the definitions to the compound adjectives. There are more words than needed.

badly-behaved strong-minded big-headed level-headed

thick-skinned well-behaved open-minded narrow-minded
cold-hearted warm-hearted two-faced short-tempered

1. Anna always gets what she wants. She is……

2. You shouldn’t trust him. He is …. He smiles at your face but he keeps talking behind you.

3. The characters in that film were horrible. They were ……

4. My dad gets angry very easily. He is…..

5. Laura does a lot of work for charity (helping others). She is….

6. He is very calm. He can overcome most difficulties easily. He is….

7. The new manager never accepts other people’s ideas. He is…..

Anna always gets what she wants. She is big-headed

You shouldn’t trust him. He is two-faced. He smiles at your face but he keeps talking behind you.

The characters in that film were horrible. They were cold-hearted

My dad gets angry very easily. He is short-tempered

 Laura does a lot of work for charity (helping others). She is warm-hearted

He is very calm. He can overcome most difficulties easily. He is open-minded

The new manager never accepts other people’s ideas. He is short-minded

Exercise on Compound Adjectives:

Complete the following sentences using the compound adjectives given below.
Top - secret, sugar – free, tight - fist, short – tempered, good - looking, bed - ridden, three –
legged, warm – hearted, ill - tempered, home - made, top - ranking, soft – spoken, reddish -
hot, water - proof, good - looking
1. Sunil gets angry when he is teased for being ___________
2. The new girl in the class is very ____________ and also __________
3. His ___________ grandmother and grand father are great concern for his entire family
4. Our neighbor is a ________________ person. He greets everybody in the colony
whenever he meets them.
5. We participated in the ____________ race conducted in our apartment premises during
new year eve party.
6. The ____________pizza tasted better than the one purchased from pizza corner.
7. The ____________ carpets from Kashmir are very famous all over the world.
8. She had enough money but she is too ___________ to denote even 100 rs for the poor
people when we went to visit an orphanage.
9. Rahul was sent on a ___________ mission to Russia by his school.
10. People suffering from diabetes eat _______________ tablets
11. My mother was a __________ lady
12. the sun was ______________ when it was about to set.
13. I was wearing a ___________ jacket
14. we have to be __________ to move with multi cultured people
15. she was a ____________ girl.
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