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Compound adjectives

Compound adjectives are adjectives that are made up of two or more words usually with hyphens (-) between them.

Examples:

- To concentrate on your homework, you should usually study in brightly-lit places.

- Mr Brown still has that old-fashioned car. I don't think he will ever get rid of it.

N.B.: A compound adjective with a number does not take the 's' of the plural.

Examples:

- We stay in a five-star hotel.

- He lives opposite a seven-floor building.

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1. My friend's father has just bought a brand- (

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)   [n...] car.

2. Laury has just got a (

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)   [p...]-time job; she works three hours a day on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

3. It was a very badly- (

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)   [w...] article. I noticed several punctuation and spelling mistakes.

4. Our neighbours are very well- (

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)   [p...]. They can afford going to expensive restaurants.

5. Mary has got a small shop in the market where she sells second- (

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)   [h...] clothes and machines.

6. John finds it very difficult to read the newspaper. He's (

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)   [s...]-sighted.

7. Mr.Fabien likes to hear about new ideas. He is (

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)   [o...]-minded.

8. She was a well- (

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)   [k...] actress by the time she turned seven.

9. We find that labour- (

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)   [s...] machines are really necessary for working women.

10. (

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)   [l...]-handed people make up a little part of the population in the world.