Compound adjectives

1. Compound Adjectives
Subject:
Language Skills
Course:
5th Semester
Group Members:
Erika Arguello
Mario Salazar
Shirley Vásquez

2. Compound adjectives are adjectives
that are made up of two or more
words usually with hyphens (-)
between them.
1. Examples:
2. An English-speaking
country.
3. A time-saving gadget.
4. A thirty-floor building.
5. Our office is in a twenty-
story building.
6. I have just finished reading
a 300-page book.
7. He is a well-known writer.
1. Compound Adjectives +
Periods of Time.
2. Adverb + Past Participle.
3. Noun + Past Participle.
4. Noun + Present Participle.
5. Noun + Adjective.
6. Adjective + Noun.
7. Adjective + Past Participle.
8. Adjective + Present
Participle.
9. Compound Adjectives with
Proper Nouns

3.  Compound Adjectives + Periods of Time:
1. I work eight hours every day --> I work an eight-hour
day
2. I'm going on vacation for three weeks --> I have a three-
week vacation
3. There was a delay of 5 seconds --> There was a five-
second delay.
Notice: how we normally write the number as a word, not in
numerical form.
 Adverb + Past Participle
1. This is a brightly-lit room.
2. She is a well-known actress.
3. We live in a densely-populated city.

4.  Noun + Past Participle:
1. We should start using wind-powered generators to
cut costs.
2. I love eating sun-dried raisins.
 Noun + Present Participle
1. We should start using wind-powered generators to
cut costs.
2. I love eating sun-dried raisins.
3. I bought some mouth-watering strawberries.

5.  Noun + Adjective:
1. She is a world-famous singer.
2. This is a smoke-free restaurant.
 Adjective + Noun
1. It was a last-minute decision.
2. We watched the full-length version of the
movie.

6.  Adjective + Past Participle
1. That is an old-fashioned dress
2. Reptiles are cold-blooded creatures.
 Adjective + Present Participle
1. She is a good-looking girl.
2. It left a long-lasting taste in my mouth.

7.  Compound Adjectives with Proper Nouns
1. I bought the James Jackson tickets for
us.
 James Jackson is a compound adjective
describing the tickets (What type of
tickets? James Jackson tickets). Since the
adjective is a Proper noun, we don't need
a hyphen between the two names.

8. Activity
 red-handed, open-minded, absent-minded, tight-
fisted, well-informed.
1. The criminal was caught . He was seen
steeling the young lady’s handbag.
2. People should be tolerant towards other cultures.
They should be .
3. Sarah couldn't answer the teacher’s question
because she was .
4. Don’t expect him to invite you for dinner. He
is .
5. To be a translator you need to be about
linguistics.

9.  Choose the correct answer
 sighted
 rooted
 new
 mannered
 fashioned
 well-
 brand-
 deeply-
 short-
 old-
mannered
new
rooted
sighted
fashioned