Mixed Compound Words Exercises

Mixed compound word practice brings together compound nouns, compound adjectives, and compound verbs. You will write closed nouns such as backpack, bookshelf, and cloakroom; open nouns such as bus stop; hyphenated nouns such as mother-in-law; adjectives such as first-hand, face-to-face, and five-hundred-word; and verbs such as outline and streamline.

Because the exercise mixes types, you need to identify the job of the answer before choosing the spelling. Ask whether the blank names a thing, describes a noun, or acts as a verb. Then decide whether the form is one word, two words, or hyphenated. Some answers have accepted variants, such as first-hand and firsthand, or grassroots and grass-roots. This review helps you transfer the separate compound word rules into flexible B1-B2 sentence practice. It is a useful final check before using compound words in freer writing tasks and longer classroom exercises, where different compound types often appear together.