Focus 10-13 Feelings

Feelings Some of these adjectives are different from the others:

high-spirited ill-tempered
In this Focus Activity: panic-stricken
heavy-hearted
1. Feelings Vocabulary
grief-stricken
2. Compound Adjectives
3. Examples
Do you notice anything different?
1. Feelings Vocabulary They all have a hyphen, “-”, between two words.
There are different ways to say these words: happy, sad, They’re called
angry, scared. compound adjectives
happy: delighted, overjoyed, high-spirited, elated,
or hyphenated adjectives.
ecstatic
sad: melancholy, heavy-hearted, gloomy, grief-stricken, We generally put a hyphen
sorrowful between two words when
angry: bitter, outraged, cross, furious, ill-tempered we want them to act as a
scared: panic-stricken, terrified, petrified, anxious, single idea.
startled

2. Compound Adjectives
I saw a man-eating shark.
I saw a man eating shark.
In the first example, the sentence means you saw a
shark, which eats humans.
In the second example, the sentence means you saw
a man, who was eating shark as food.
We generally use a hyphen between two words
(nouns) when we want them to act as a single idea.
Focus 10-13 Feelings
3. Examples
I have just read a book that
has 300 pages.
I have just read a 300-page book.
He is famous around the world.
He is world-famous.
There is a car park on two levels.
There’s a two-level car park.
You can’t smoke in this restaurant.
This is a non-smoking restaurant.