Question 1
The children travel to school on a yellow _____.
Options: bus school, school bus, school buses
Choose the option that completes each sentence in context.
Question 1
The children travel to school on a yellow _____.
Options: bus school, school bus, school buses
Question 2
In the compound noun blackboard, black is _____.
Options: a noun describing board, the main noun, an adjective describing board
Question 3
These cups are empty. They are designed for serving coffee, so we call them _____.
Options: coffee cups, cups of coffee, coffees cups
Question 4
This shop sells shoes for children. It is a _____.
Options: shoes shop, shoe shops, shoe shop
Question 5
The map shows three _____ along this road where passengers can wait for a bus.
Options: buses stop, bus stops, bus stop
Question 6
For our family trip, I packed four _____, one for each person to clean their teeth.
Options: toothbrushes, teethbrushes, toothbrush
Question 7
Two local _____ who own small companies are speaking at our school today.
Options: businesswomans, businesswoman, businesswomen
Question 8
We swim and play tennis at the new _____ near our house.
Options: sport centre, sports centre, sports centres
Question 9
I bought this jacket at a _____ in town.
Options: clothes shop, clothe shop, clothes shops
Question 10
The room where I sleep is my _____.
Options: bed-room, bed room, bedroom
Question 11
Choose the correctly spelt noun: At the airport, _____ for our flight starts at seven.
Options: check in, check-in, checkin
Question 12
My two brothers are married. Their wives are my _____.
Options: sisters-in-law, sister-in-laws, sister-in-law
Question 13
The lesson lasts forty minutes. It is a _____ lesson.
Options: forty-minutes, forty minute, forty-minute
Question 14
It is a four-week course. In other words, the course lasts _____.
Options: four-week, four weeks, four week
Question 15
My daughter is six years old. She is a _____ child.
Options: six-year-old, six-years-old, six year old
Practice Compound Nouns and Noun Modifiers — Forms in Context with this interactive fill-in-the-blank exercise of 15 questions. Choose the option that correctly completes each sentence, then submit to check your answers and get detailed feedback on every choice.
Practicing grammar in real sentences — rather than memorising rules in isolation — is one of the most effective ways to make a structure stick. You can retry as many times as you like to build accuracy and confidence using Compound Nouns and Noun Modifiers — Forms in Context in everyday English.
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