Use the underlined material to create the missing compound adjectives. You may have to use words that are not actually in the sentence –or there may be no hints at all.
The
Ministry of Leisure and Finance has a new, very skilful minister. She answers
all of the public's queries with statements that are crafted carefully by his committee of experts. She always
replies to everything with a carefully-crafted statement.
The
minister used to be an impresario for the famous rock-group, "Vandals In
Sandals". She is known everywhere.
The minister is a well-known person.
The
minister's committee is highly efficient. When there is an issue to deal with,
they consult at once and come up with an effective solution. It is like
medicine that acts fast. The
committee always produces a fast-acting remedy.
The
minister has a machine that she uses to
shred her private papers.
She has a paper-shredding
machine.
It looks old-fashioned with its beige panels, and it weighs one-hundred kilograms. She has an
old-fashioned-looking, beige-panelled, one-hundred
kilogram paper-shredder.
She hides it under her desk, just to
be careful. It is her carefully-hidden
secret.
When she
wants to send a private letter to a wealthy supporter, she seals the envelope
with a special glue that dries
very quickly. She seals it
with a special, quick-drying glue.
Her
secretary has a crush on her. He chews
gum during his breaks and strums
the mandolin. She has a gum-chewing, mandoline-strumming
admirer in her office.
It is an
old instrument that the guitarist for Vandals In Sandals sold him at a party.
It is about two feet long and has a reddish colour. It is a twofoot-long,
reddish-coloured instrument.
This poor secretary is not a very attractive
specimen. His face is pimply, and his nose is as oily as the Spanish coast. He
is a pimply-faced, oily-nosed Romeo!
Fill
out the table, as in the example. Write your results, indicating the accent
pattern.
1 a bill worth three dollars! |
A three-dollar bill!
|
2 a violin that is ninety years old! |
a ninety-year-old violin |
3 a pass to use the buses for three years! |
a three-year bus-pass |
4 a grasshopper with green eyes and long legs! |
a green-eyed long-legged grasshopper |
5 a tarantula with tan stripes weighing two
pounds! |
a tan-striped two-pound tarantula |
6 fragrant ointment for Athlete’s Foot! |
a fragrant Athlete’s Foot
ointment |
7 a soliloquy that is exceedingly insolent! |
an exceedingly insolent soliloquy |
8 a flower from a hot-house that eats flesh! |
a flesh-eating hot-house flower |
9 a marriage that lasted six days! |
a six-day marriage (cf.:
a six-day-long marriage) |
|
a six-day-old marriage |
|
a long-lasting marriage |
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a quietly-rehearsed curse |
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a quickly-cooked sturgeon-stomach curry |
|
a stale-smelling parsley soup (remember that for recipes, you don’t have
the usual ‘compound accent’, **parsley soup. |
|
a grotesquely-grinning gargoyle |
|
a four-cornered boxing-ring |
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an oxygen-releasing
forest fern |
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a hard-hitting, record-breaking boxing champion |
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a pea-brained bird |
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a slow-thinking, beach-ball-swallowing rattlesnake |
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a much-discussed exotic tree disease |