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Compounding Exercises

This document provides exercises to test understanding of compound words, phrases, and compound types. It includes lists of words to identify as compounds, phrases, or phrasal words. It also asks to determine if identified compounds are endocentric or exocentric, primary or secondary, and to define Greek or Latin combining forms in given compounds and find another word with the same combining form. The exercises assess knowledge of compound word structure and formation.

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Compounding Exercises

This document provides exercises to test understanding of compound words, phrases, and compound types. It includes lists of words to identify as compounds, phrases, or phrasal words. It also asks to determine if identified compounds are endocentric or exocentric, primary or secondary, and to define Greek or Latin combining forms in given compounds and find another word with the same combining form. The exercises assess knowledge of compound word structure and formation.

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Exercises on compounding

1. Which of the following are compound words, which are phrases, and
which are phrasal words?

(a) moonlight,
moonscape,
harvest moon,
blue moon (as in once in a blue moon)

(b) blueberry,
bluebottle,
greybeard,
sky-blue,
blue-pencil (as in they bluepencilledthe script heavily)

(c) pencil case,


eyebrow pencil,
pencil sharpener,
pencil-thin,
thin air (as in they vanished into thin air)

(d) airport,
Royal Air Force,
air conditioning,
Air France

(e) silkworm,
silk shirt,
T-shirt

(f ) stick-in-the-mud,
lady-in-waiting,
forget-me-not,has-been,
wannabe

(f) overrún (verb),


óverrun (noun, as in a big cost overrun),
undercoat(noun),
undercoat (verb, as in We undercoated the walls in white),
underhand
handover

2. Of the compounds (not the phrases or phrasal words) in Exercise 1, which are endocentric and
which are exocentric?

3. Of the compound nouns in Exercise 1, which are primary (or root) compounds and which are
secondary (or verbal) compounds?

4. Each of these words is a compound containing at least one bound Graeco-Latin combining
form. With the help of a dictionary if necessary, identify a meaning for each such combining
form, and find another word that contains it:

nanosecond, protoplasm, endocentric, polyphony, leucocyte, omnivorous, octahedron

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