1.

Which of the following are compound words, which are phrases and which are phrasal
words?

Compound Phrases Phrasal

A Moonlight, moonscape Blue moon Harvest moon
B Blueberry, Bluebottle, Sky-blue Greybeard
blue-pencil
C Pencil sharpener, pencil Pencil-thin, eyebrow Thin-air
case pencil
D Airport Air conditioning Royal air force, Air
France
E Silk Shirt T-shirt silkworm
F Wannabe Lady-in-waiting, Stick-in-the-mud,
forget-me-not has-been
G Óverrun, undercoat (n), Overrû n, undercoat handover
underhand (v)
2. Endocentric : moonlight, moonscape, blueberry, pencil sharpener, pencil case, airport,
silkshirt, undercoat, underhand, blue-pencil
Exocentric : bluebottle, wannabe, overrun
3. Primary : moonlight, moonscape, blueberry, bluebottle, airport, wannabe,
undercoat, underhand
Secondary : blue-pencil, pencil sharpener, pencil case, silk shirt, overrun
4. Brunch : breakfast lunch
Motel : Motor Lodge
Radar : Radio detection and ranging
Modem : Modulator demodulator
Laser : Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
5. Nanosecond : unit of time
Protoplasm : living part of a cell that is surrounded by a plasma membrane
Endocencric : Grammatical construction
Polyphony : type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of
independent melody
Leucocyte : white blood cell
Omnivorous : animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal
matter
Octahedron : polyhedron with 8 faces, 12 edges and 6 vertices