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) happiness (b) quickly (c) beautiful (d) firefly
- 2.Make a compound word: air + ___ (a) port (b) book (c) tree (d) rice
- 3.Which is a compound word? (a) pencil (b) yellow (c) elephant (d) sunglasses
- 4.Which is a compound word? (a) classroom (b) running (c) beautiful (d) umbrella
- 5.Which is a compound word? (a) umbrella (b) homework (c) tomato (d) yellow
- 6.Which is a compound word? (a) pencil (b) football (c) happiness (d) banana
- 7.Make a compound word: sea + ___ (a) pen (b) chair (c) milk (d) horse
- 8.Make a compound word: pop + ___ (a) corn (b) shoe (c) tree (d) pen
- 9.Make a compound word: some + ___ (a) milk (b) thing (c) pen (d) tree
- 10.Which is a compound word? (a) yellow (b) tomato (c) popcorn (d) happiness
- 11.Make a compound word: home + ___ (a) work (b) tree (c) cup (d) pen
- 12.Make a compound word: every + ___ (a) tree (b) one (c) pen (d) milk
- 13.Make a compound word: tooth + ___ (a) cup (b) shoe (c) road (d) brush
- 14.Make a compound word: rain + ___ (a) chair (b) pen (c) bow (d) milk
- 15.Make a compound word: fish + ___ (a) bowl (b) milk (c) pen (d) chair
- 16.Make a compound word: jelly + ___ (a) milk (b) chair (c) pen (d) fish
- 17.Make a compound word: play + ___ (a) milk (b) rice (c) cup (d) ground
- 18.Which is a compound word? (a) teacher (b) running (c) newspaper (d) kitchen
- 19.Which is a compound word? (a) beautiful (b) quickly (c) running (d) playground
- 20.Which is a compound word? (a) tomato (b) umbrella (c) notebook (d) happiness
- 21.Make a compound word: post + ___ (a) milk (b) tree (c) rice (d) man
- 22.Make a compound word: hair + ___ (a) tree (b) cut (c) book (d) milk
- 23.Make a compound word: tooth + ___ (a) paste (b) tree (c) chair (d) milk
- 24.Which is a compound word? (a) bedroom (b) elephant (c) beautiful (d) teacher
- 25.Make a compound word: water + ___ (a) book (b) pen (c) chair (d) fall
- 26.Make a compound word: lunch + ___ (a) box (b) tree (c) pen (d) milk
- 27.Make a compound word: butter + ___ (a) pen (b) shoe (c) fly (d) chair
- 28.Which is a compound word? (a) jellyfish (b) elephant (c) running (d) beautiful
- 29.Make a compound word: pan + ___ (a) pen (b) shoe (c) cake (d) tree
- 30.Which is a compound word? (a) banana (b) elephant (c) pencil (d) sunflower
- 31.Make a compound word: moon + ___ (a) chair (b) milk (c) light (d) pen
- 32.Make a compound word: news + ___ (a) shoe (b) tree (c) paper (d) milk
- 33.Which is a compound word? (a) animal (b) sunrise (c) umbrella (d) tomato
- 34.Which is a compound word? (a) tomato (b) toothbrush (c) happiness (d) umbrella
- 35.Which is a compound word? (a) grandmother (b) running (c) elephant (d) happiness
- 36.Which is a compound word? (a) elephant (b) happiness (c) airport (d) beautiful
- 37.Which is a compound word? (a) waterfall (b) running (c) teacher (d) animal
- 38.Make a compound word: sun + ___ (a) bag (b) flower (c) milk (d) chair
- 39.Make a compound word: star + ___ (a) chair (b) milk (c) fish (d) pen
- 40.Which is a compound word? (a) moonlight (b) elephant (c) happiness (d) umbrella
Answer key
- firefly
- port
- sunglasses
- classroom
- homework
- football
- horse
- corn
- thing
- popcorn
- work
- one
- brush
- bow
- bowl
- fish
- ground
- newspaper
- playground
- notebook
- man
- cut
- paste
- bedroom
- fall
- box
- fly
- jellyfish
- cake
- sunflower
- light
- paper
- sunrise
- toothbrush
- grandmother
- airport
- waterfall
- flower
- fish
- moonlight
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