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Fill in the blanks with the words which can properly go with the word written
beside it.

walked quickly played agree

jumped lazily slept

roughly softly looked

Study skills

Read these words.

• eight-year-old brother • man-eating leopard

• snow-clad mountain • two-hour trek

The highlighted words are known as compound adjectives. These words are joined

together with a hyphen ‘-’.

Such compound adjectives help in describing nouns.

Complete the sentences with the help of the words from the help box.

part-time well-known five-day twenty-minute

old-fashioned slow-moving quick-witted mouth-watering

1. We have a recess.

2. Tara is searching for a job.

3. We had lunch at an palace.

4. We went on a trip to Manali.

5. Devika’s brother is a author.

6. The detective solved the crime.

7. We had desserts after the meal.

8. Father was stuck in a traffic for two hours.

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