Compound Nouns - Easy Exercises

Compound nouns name people, places, objects, and ideas by joining two words into one meaning. This B1 exercise practises closed compounds: forms written as one word, such as toothpaste, bedroom, football, bookshop, and raincoat. Most answers are made by combining the two words in brackets without a space or hyphen.

Closed compound nouns are common in everyday English, but their spelling is often learnt word by word. The meaning can usually help you: sunlight is light from the sun, a classroom is a room for a class, and a doorbell is a bell at a door. Some compounds are less transparent, so repeated practice is useful. Read the sentence first, identify the object or place being described, and then write the British target form as a single word. This route is deliberately limited to closed compounds, with occasional accepted variants, so you can build confidence before comparing open and hyphenated nouns in later routes.