Compound Words
Read these sentences:
1. Beyond the iron gates were the playing field and the two-storeyed school building.
2. The owner of the tea shop, now over sixty, a little rustic in appearance, with his white neatly-combed hair and clean look, was the same as before.
3. His nerves seemed overwrought for some reason.
The words in italics are Compound words. A compound word is a combination of two or more words that function as a single unit of meaning.
C. Complete the following table with two more compound words.
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- ❖ Noun + Noun : kitchen garden, school bus, table spoon
- ❖ Noun + Verb : mouthwash, sunset, pen stand
- ❖ Verb + Noun : watchman, playground, call taxi
- ❖ Preposition + Noun : overcoat, underworld, upstream
- ❖ Gerund + Noun : bleaching powder, walking stick, dining hall
- ❖ Noun + Gerund : housekeeping, birdwatching, babysitting
- ❖ Adjective+ Preposition + Noun : good for nothing, lack of food, free of cost
- ❖ Noun + Preposition + Noun : mother-in-law, line-by-line, day-to-day
D. Combine the words in column A with those in column B to form compound words as many as you can.
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Answer
- rainfall
- snowball / snowfall
- starlight
- drawback
- plaything / playback
- lottery ticket
- underworld
- manhole
- sidewalk/ backside
- footnote
E. Form compound words from the boxes given below and fill in the blanks in the sentences that follow with the appropriate compound words.
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- Siva visited the hair stylist to have a clean haircut.
- Tharani had given the sarees for dry cleaning.
- The green house is a natural process that warms the earth’s surface.
- Never wait for an alarm clock to wake you up.
- The children were late to school as there was a traffic jam near the toll plaza.
- The government expects every individual to promptly pay the income tax.
- People usually wear sun glasses during summer.
- The patients were asked to sit in the waiting room until the doctor arrived.
- With teamwork we are able to multiply our output.
- The room was looking bright with the colourful wallpaper.
AFFIXES
Read the following line taken from the text:
In the English language, new words can be formed by a process called affixation. Affixation means adding affixes to the root word to form a new word. Affixes can be classified into prefix and suffix. If an affix is attached to the beginning of a word, it is called a Prefix. If an affix is attached to the end of the word, it is called a Suffix.
Examples:
Prefixes: illiterate, disqualify, supernatural, suburban, malnutrition.
Suffixes: childhood, ability, examination, establishment, slavish.
F (i) Form new words by adding appropriate prefix/suffix:
- accurate: inaccurate, accuracy
- understand: misunderstand, understanding
- practice: practical, impractical, malpractice
- technology: technologist, technological
- fashion: fashionable, fashionate
- different: indifferent, difference, differentiate
- child: childish, childhood, childlike
- national: nationally, nationality, international
- origin: originally, originality, originate
- enjoy: enjoyment, enjoyable
F (ii) Frame sentences of your own using any five newly formed words.
- Raja misunderstood me for a lawyer.
- Stephen is a well-known computer technologist.
- We never forget our childhood days.
- Wipro is an international company.
- Reading books is an enjoyable hobby.
G. Fill in the blanks by adding appropriate prefix/suffix to the words given in brackets.
- He was sleeping comfortably in his couch. (comfort)
- Kavya rides a bicycle to school. (cycle)
- There was only a handful of people in the theatre. (hand)
- It is illegal to cut sandalwood trees. (legal)
- The arrival of the President has been expected for the last half an hour. (arrive)
- The man behaved abnormally in front of the crowd. (normal)
- Swathy had no intention of visiting the doctor. (intend)
- The bacteria are so small that you need a microscope to see them. (scope)
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