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.Make a compound word: butter + ___ (a) shoe (b) pen (c) fly (d) chair
- 2.Make a compound word: snow + ___ (a) man (b) cup (c) pen (d) chair
- 3.Which is a compound word? (a) beautiful (b) teacher (c) happiness (d) handbag
- 4.Which is a compound word? (a) elephant (b) umbrella (c) beautiful (d) homework
- 5.Make a compound word: news + ___ (a) milk (b) shoe (c) paper (d) tree
- 6.Which is a compound word? (a) doorbell (b) umbrella (c) beautiful (d) quickly
- 7.Make a compound word: sun + ___ (a) glasses (b) tree (c) pen (d) milk
- 8.Make a compound word: door + ___ (a) tree (b) rice (c) bell (d) milk
- 9.Make a compound word: sea + ___ (a) milk (b) rice (c) chair (d) shore
- 10.Which is a compound word? (a) kitchen (b) railway (c) animal (d) pencil
- 11.Make a compound word: cup + ___ (a) milk (b) shoe (c) board (d) tree
- 12.Which is a compound word? (a) happiness (b) quickly (c) sunglasses (d) animal
- 13.Which is a compound word? (a) waterfall (b) pencil (c) elephant (d) animal
- 14.Which is a compound word? (a) yellow (b) animal (c) teacher (d) classroom
- 15.Which is a compound word? (a) happiness (b) animal (c) pancake (d) beautiful
- 16.Make a compound word: rain + ___ (a) bow (b) milk (c) chair (d) pen
- 17.Which is a compound word? (a) pencil (b) animal (c) happiness (d) toothbrush
- 18.Which is a compound word? (a) umbrella (b) airport (c) beautiful (d) teacher
- 19.Make a compound word: sea + ___ (a) pen (b) chair (c) milk (d) horse
- 20.Which is a compound word? (a) quickly (b) eyebrow (c) yellow (d) teacher
- 21.Make a compound word: some + ___ (a) tree (b) milk (c) pen (d) thing
- 22.Make a compound word: rail + ___ (a) way (b) pen (c) tree (d) milk
- 23.Make a compound word: air + ___ (a) tree (b) book (c) port (d) rice
- 24.Which is a compound word? (a) headache (b) elephant (c) quickly (d) happiness
- 25.Make a compound word: play + ___ (a) milk (b) rice (c) ground (d) cup
- 26.Make a compound word: class + ___ (a) milk (b) shoe (c) tree (d) room
- 27.Which is a compound word? (a) pencil (b) umbrella (c) newspaper (d) quickly
- 28.Which is a compound word? (a) animal (b) umbrella (c) bookshelf (d) banana
- 29.Make a compound word: fish + ___ (a) milk (b) pen (c) bowl (d) chair
- 30.Make a compound word: out + ___ (a) pen (b) milk (c) tree (d) side
- 31.Which is a compound word? (a) postman (b) umbrella (c) elephant (d) banana
- 32.Which is a compound word? (a) toothpaste (b) beautiful (c) running (d) yellow
- 33.Which is a compound word? (a) quickly (b) sunflower (c) kitchen (d) animal
- 34.Which is a compound word? (a) kitchen (b) pencil (c) firefly (d) tomato
- 35.Make a compound word: head + ___ (a) milk (b) pen (c) ache (d) tree
- 36.Make a compound word: fire + ___ (a) milk (b) pen (c) fly (d) cup
- 37.Make a compound word: lunch + ___ (a) tree (b) box (c) pen (d) milk
- 38.Which is a compound word? (a) quickly (b) teacher (c) kitchen (d) weekend
- 39.Which is a compound word? (a) yellow (b) banana (c) teacher (d) playground
- 40.Make a compound word: pop + ___ (a) tree (b) pen (c) shoe (d) corn
Answer key
- fly
- man
- handbag
- homework
- paper
- doorbell
- glasses
- bell
- shore
- railway
- board
- sunglasses
- waterfall
- classroom
- pancake
- bow
- toothbrush
- airport
- horse
- eyebrow
- thing
- way
- port
- headache
- ground
- room
- newspaper
- bookshelf
- bowl
- side
- postman
- toothpaste
- sunflower
- firefly
- ache
- fly
- box
- weekend
- playground
- corn
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