Compound Adjectives

By : Ronaldi
 What is Compound Adjectives?
 A compound adjective is formed when two or more words work
together to modify the same noun
 There are 13 kinds of compound adjectives, but let’s focus on 6
kinds
 adjective + present participle : good-looking
 noun + present participle : life-threatening
 adverb + present participle : brightly-shining

 adjective + past participle : kind-hearted

 noun + past participle : tongue-tied
 adverb + past participle : brightly-lit
Read and find what the sentences
have in common
 I have a meat-eating plant
 They go to an English-speaking school.
 The dishes were all mouth-watering.
 The girl read a page-turning book last night.
 My sister is an animal-loving girl.
 They listen seriously to the heart-breaking
story.
 His brother is a tennis-playing person.

noun + present participle

 Can you change these compound adjectives
into adjective clauses?
 I have a meat-eating plant
 I have a carnivorous plant
  I have a plant that eats meat

 Can you change these compound adjectives

into adjective clauses?
 They go to an English-speaking school.
 They go to a school where people speak
English
 Can you paraphrase these compound
adjectives ?
 The boys ate mouth-watering foods.
 The boys ate delicious foods.
 The boys ate foods that water their mouth

 The girl read a page-turning book last night.

 The girl read an interesting book last night.
 The girl read a book that made her turn the
book over and over again
Read and find what the sentences
have in common
 The good-looking chef was dressed in hard-
wearing clothing and sitting in front of
a free-standing cooker.
 The horse is fast-running
 This is quick-drying glue.
 This has been a long-lasting war

adjective + present participle

 Can you rewrite these compound adjectives
in other words?
 This has been a long-lasting war
 This war has lasted for a long time
 This is quick-drying glue.
 This glue dries quickly
 The horse is fast-running
 The horse runs fast
 Read and find what the sentences
have in common
 Cinta Fitri is a never-ending soap opera.
 They looked at the brightly-shining star

adverb + present participle

Can you rewrite those compound

adjectives in your own words?
Read and find what the sentences
have in common
 She has a very narrow-minded Father.
 My grandma is an absent-minded person.
 He was a cold-blooded murderer.
 She lived in an old-fashioned house
 My aunt is kind-hearted and open-minded

adjective + past participle

 Read and find what the sentences
have in common
 Jakarta is a densely-populated city.
 The boy is well-behaved.
 Autumn is associated with brightly-colored
foliage.
 The dimly-lit streets in our town encourage
burglars.
  she held deeply-rooted beliefs about the
sanctity of marriage.

adverb + past participle

 Read and find what the sentences
have in common
 When they refused to exchange the shop-
soiled item, I was tongue-tied and
didn't know what to say.

noun + past participle

 Source :
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit
/learnitv224.shtml

 http://joelfinley.tripod.com/compadj.htm

 http://english.errachidia.org/compounds.htm

 http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-
2/exercise-english-76003.php