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Compound Nouns and Noun Modifiers —
Forms in Context.

Choose the option that completes each sentence in context.

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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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