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Exercises

Complete these networks with any appropriate expressions from the opposite page. Add
extra bubbles if you need them.

In some cases more than one compound noun can be formed from one particular element.
What, for example, are the two expressions listed opposite with blood as an element and
what are the two based on control? Complete the following compound nouns with a noun
other than the one suggested opposite.
1 ....................... token 5 tea. .......................... 9 .................. ..crossing
2 junk ......................... 6 mother ..................... 10 ........................ lights
3 sound ....................... 7 ......................... ..tax 11 food .........................
4 blood ....................... 8 ................ processing 12 .......................... race

What are they talking about? In each case the answer is a compound noun opposite.
Example: 'I had it taken at the doctor's this morning and he said it was a little high for my
age.' blood pressure
1 'You really shouldn't cross the road at any other place.'
2 'It's partly caused by such things as hair sprays and old fridges.'
3 'She always has terrible sneezing fits in the early summer.'
4 'I can't understand why they spend so much money on something so destructive.'
5 'Working there is supposed to be much more stressful than being a pilot.'
6 'The worst time was when I dropped one at the theatre and spent the interval scrabbling
around on the floor.'
7 'I don't think it should ever be used under any circumstances.'
8 'It's much easier not to have to make your own arrangements.'
9 'He can't possibly run away from the policeman with those on!'

Now make up some sentences like those in exercise 13.3 relating to some of the new
expressions you made in exercise 13.2.

Choose any article in a magazine or newspaper and write down all the compound nouns
which you find.

Look at all the compound expressions you have worked with in this unit. Mark all those
that you feel you need to be able to use yourself rather than just to understand when others
use them.

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