Compound Words Worksheet
Word tip (Two whole words): Split the word into two parts — each part must be a real word on its own (foot + ball). To make one, find the second word that joins with the first to make a real word: snow + man = snowman. Words like teacher (teach + er) or quickly (quick + ly) end in a suffix, so they are not compound words.
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- 1.Which is a compound word? (a) pencil (b) elephant (c) tomato (d) headache
- 2.Which is a compound word? (a) happiness (b) yellow (c) running (d) wheelchair
- 3.Which is a compound word? (a) quickly (b) running (c) classroom (d) banana
- 4.Which is a compound word? (a) quickly (b) tomato (c) elephant (d) bookshelf
- 5.Which is a compound word? (a) quickly (b) running (c) doorbell (d) beautiful
- 6.Make a compound word: star + ___ (a) pen (b) fish (c) milk (d) chair
- 7.Make a compound word: butter + ___ (a) pen (b) fly (c) chair (d) shoe
- 8.Which is a compound word? (a) beautiful (b) elephant (c) tomato (d) daylight
- 9.Make a compound word: sand + ___ (a) castle (b) pen (c) chair (d) milk
- 10.Which is a compound word? (a) running (b) quickly (c) banana (d) sunflower
- 11.Make a compound word: hand + ___ (a) bag (b) milk (c) tree (d) rice
- 12.Which is a compound word? (a) tomato (b) beautiful (c) banana (d) starfish
- 13.Which is a compound word? (a) quickly (b) running (c) kitchen (d) notebook
- 14.Which is a compound word? (a) pancake (b) yellow (c) beautiful (d) kitchen
- 15.Which is a compound word? (a) umbrella (b) teacher (c) handbag (d) quickly
- 16.Make a compound word: tooth + ___ (a) tree (b) chair (c) paste (d) milk
- 17.Make a compound word: bed + ___ (a) room (b) milk (c) pen (d) tree
- 18.Which is a compound word? (a) newspaper (b) teacher (c) animal (d) running
- 19.Make a compound word: play + ___ (a) milk (b) cup (c) rice (d) ground
- 20.Make a compound word: sun + ___ (a) flower (b) bag (c) chair (d) milk
- 21.Make a compound word: week + ___ (a) tree (b) shoe (c) end (d) milk
- 22.Which is a compound word? (a) kitchen (b) teacher (c) popcorn (d) pencil
- 23.Make a compound word: tea + ___ (a) pen (b) cup (c) road (d) shoe
- 24.Which is a compound word? (a) pencil (b) beautiful (c) elephant (d) toothpaste
- 25.Which is a compound word? (a) happiness (b) animal (c) jellyfish (d) elephant
- 26.Make a compound word: every + ___ (a) milk (b) pen (c) tree (d) one
- 27.Which is a compound word? (a) yellow (b) beautiful (c) weekend (d) pencil
- 28.Which is a compound word? (a) teacher (b) animal (c) eyebrow (d) quickly
- 29.Make a compound word: pan + ___ (a) pen (b) shoe (c) tree (d) cake
- 30.Which is a compound word? (a) yellow (b) quickly (c) pencil (d) butterfly
- 31.Make a compound word: fire + ___ (a) milk (b) pen (c) cup (d) fly
- 32.Make a compound word: sauce + ___ (a) shoe (b) milk (c) pan (d) tree
- 33.Which is a compound word? (a) quickly (b) postman (c) happiness (d) teacher
- 34.Which is a compound word? (a) teacher (b) firefly (c) beautiful (d) umbrella
- 35.Make a compound word: hair + ___ (a) book (b) cut (c) tree (d) milk
- 36.Make a compound word: head + ___ (a) milk (b) ache (c) tree (d) pen
- 37.Make a compound word: some + ___ (a) tree (b) thing (c) milk (d) pen
- 38.Make a compound word: home + ___ (a) pen (b) tree (c) cup (d) work
- 39.Make a compound word: tooth + ___ (a) road (b) cup (c) brush (d) shoe
- 40.Make a compound word: book + ___ (a) sun (b) rain (c) milk (d) shelf
Answer key
- headache
- wheelchair
- classroom
- bookshelf
- doorbell
- fish
- fly
- daylight
- castle
- sunflower
- bag
- starfish
- notebook
- pancake
- handbag
- paste
- room
- newspaper
- ground
- flower
- end
- popcorn
- cup
- toothpaste
- jellyfish
- one
- weekend
- eyebrow
- cake
- butterfly
- fly
- pan
- postman
- firefly
- cut
- ache
- thing
- work
- brush
- shelf
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