Compound Adjectives List For SSC

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Compound Adjectives List For SSC

Read the following sentences from your text and notice the underlined words.

1. Henry and Mrs. Slater stagger in with a pretty, old-fashioned bureau.

2. Mrs. Slater rose briskly at length in a business-like tone.

3. His bright eyes twinkle under his heavy, reddish-gray eye brows.

4. I’ll not be quiet. Oh, I call it a double-faced behavior.

The underlined words in the above four sentences are ‘compound adjectives’ in hyphenated form. A compound adjective is an adjective that comprises more than one word. Hyphens are used to link the words together to show that they constitute one adjective.

Make compound adjectives choosing one word from list ‘A’ and another

word from list ‘B’ and fill in the blanks with them.

List ‘A’          List ‘B’    Compound Adjective

clear              last           eg. clear-sighted

new                sunk        ___________________

cold                head       ___________________

four                 blood     ___________________

well                 star        ___________________

half                 read       ___________________

five                 lay          ___________________

peacock         blue         ___________________

long                sight        ___________________

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Answers
new-laid 

cold-blooded 

four-day 

curly headed 

well-read 

half-sunk 

five-star 

peacock-blue 


long-lasting 

1. Sindhu is very clear-sighted about her choice.

2. The headmaster suggested a ____________________ trip to Hyderabad.

3. The _____________________________ girl who is under the tree is my sister.

4. All the people were shocked at the sight of this _______________ murder.

5. After the terrible tempest, the ___________________ sailing boat was unusable.

6. Prasad booked a room in a ___________________ hotel for Srikanth.

7. Every week, __________________ eggs are used by my mother to make some wonderful cakes.

8. This _____________________ coat is too large for me.

9. It was a _____________________ war between the English and the French.

10. I like to correspond with this __________________ teacher. She speaks about interesting topics.

Answers
2. four-day 3. curly-headed 4. cold-blooded 5. half-sunk 6. five-star 7. peacock-blue . 8. new-laid 9. long-lasting 10. well-read

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