What is Compound Word

COMPOUND

WORD

BY

MUHAMMAD NABIL BIN MAZLAN 278343
MUHAMMAD NAUFAL BIN MOHD ZULHILMI 278589

What is Compound
Word?

or + more = New and
than 2 Different
root
words Word

word word

Compound word is combination of two or more root
words to create new word and has different meaning.



Example : Foot + Ball = Football

OPEN

3 TYPES OF CLOSED
COMPOUND HYPHENATED

WORDS

HYPHENATED
COMPOUND

Compound adjective OFF-STREET
+ noun there's off-street parking here

Age + noun FIVE-YEAR-OLD
The five-year-old boy is

ready for school.

Numbers 21 through 99 TWENTY-ONE

Some prefixes PRE-CHRISTMAS
For clarity Place your order pre-Christmas

to enjoy our discount.



ANTI- AND SELF-
I'm a self-motivated person
Move in an anti-clockwise

direction.

to clarify confusing or
awkward combinations

de-ice

OPEN COMPOUND

Open compound words are compound words written as
two separate words but said together as one word with

its own meaning. In other terms, a compound word is
made up of two or more words that are written

separately, meaning they have a space between them.

HIGH SCHOOL

EXAMPLES COFFEE TABLE
MOUNTAIN BIKE

EXAMPLES OF MALAY
WORD

ULANG TAHUN

CLOSED COMPOUND

Closed compound words are two or more words that
are joined together as one word. Closed compound
words look like one word.

BASKETBALL

BUTTERFLY EXAMPLES
RAINBOW

EXAMPLES OF MALAY
WORD

MATAHARI

Name: POP QUIZ

no matric:

1. Which word below is a 2. What words make up the
compound word? compound word dragonfly?
a) dra, gone, and fly
a) running b) butter and fly
b) rainfall c) dragon and fly
c) yesterday
d) kitten

d) drag, on , and fly

3. LIST DOWN 4 EXAMPLES 4. LIST DOWN 4 EXAMPLES
OF OPEN COMPOUND OF CLOSED COMPOUND

Name: POP QUIZ

no matric:

5. Which one is correct 6. Find the incorrect
hyphenated word? hyphenated word.
(a) anti breaking system
(a) three monthly reports (b) anti-breaking system
(b) three-monthly reports (c) anti-breaking-system
(c) three monthly-reports (d) anti breaking-system

LIST DOWN 3 EXAMPLES OF
HYPHENATED COMPOUND

WORDS USING
ADJECTIVE+NOUN