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Compound Words & Word Families

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  1. 1.

    What is a compound word?

    (a) A very long word(b) A word made from two smaller words joined together(c) A word with a prefix(d) A word that rhymes
  2. 2.

    What compound word do 'rain' and 'bow' make?

    Answer: ____________________________________

  3. 3.

    Which is a compound word?

    (a) jumping(b) sunshine(c) unhappy(d) quickly
  4. 4.

    What two words make 'football'?

    Answer: ____________________________________

  5. 5.

    What compound word do 'rain' and 'drop' make?

    (a) rainfall(b) raindrop(c) raining(d) droprain
  6. 6.

    Which word belongs to the same word family as 'play'?

    (a) plate(b) player(c) plane(d) place
  7. 7.

    Make a compound word: 'bed' + '___' = a place to sleep

    Answer: ____________________________________

  8. 8.

    Which word is in the '-tion' word family?

    (a) station(b) stone(c) stain(d) stand
  9. 9.

    Make a compound word using 'butter'.

    Answer: ____________________________________

  10. 10.

    Which words are in the same word family?

    (a) run, sun, fun(b) teach, teacher, teaching(c) cat, bat, hat(d) big, pig, dig
  11. 11.

    What compound word do 'tooth' and 'brush' make?

    Answer: ____________________________________

  12. 12.

    Which word ends with '-ness'?

    (a) darkness(b) darken(c) darkly(d) darker
  13. 13.

    Make a compound word: 'cup' + '___'

    Answer: ____________________________________

  14. 14.

    Which is NOT a compound word?

    (a) airplane(b) birthday(c) beautiful(d) popcorn
  15. 15.

    Add '-ness' to 'kind'. What word do you get?

    Answer: ____________________________________

  16. 16.

    What compound word means 'a house for a dog'?

    (a) dogpet(b) hotdog(c) doghouse(d) dogpark
  17. 17.

    Which suffix turns 'act' into 'action'?

    (a) -ness(b) -ly(c) -tion(d) -ful
  18. 18.

    How many compound words can you find? 'I had pancakes for breakfast and then read a storybook.'

    Answer: ____________________________________

  19. 19.

    Which word family does 'happiness' belong to?

    (a) The 'hap' family(b) The 'happy' family(c) The 'ness' family(d) The 'piness' family
  20. 20.

    Make two different compound words using 'sun'.

    Answer: ____________________________________

Answer key — P2 English: Compound Words & Word Families

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  1. 1.(b) A word made from two smaller words joined together
  2. 2.rainbow
  3. 3.(b) sunshine
  4. 4.foot, ball
  5. 5.(b) raindrop
  6. 6.(b) player
  7. 7.room
  8. 8.(a) station
  9. 9.butterfly
  10. 10.(b) teach, teacher, teaching
  11. 11.toothbrush
  12. 12.(a) darkness
  13. 13.cake
  14. 14.(c) beautiful
  15. 15.kindness
  16. 16.(c) doghouse
  17. 17.(c) -tion
  18. 18.3
  19. 19.(b) The 'happy' family
  20. 20.sunshine, sunflower
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