COMPOUND ADJECTIVES

Kata bilangan bisa digabungkan dengan kata benda

(singular) untuk membentuk compound adjectives,
yang digunakan untuk menunjukan:
A. age(usia): ten-year-old building
- a sixty-years-old woman (salah)
- a sixty-year -old woman (benar)
B. Volume (isi): ten-litre car
- he has just bought a ten litres car (salah)
- he has just bought a ten litre car (benar)
C. Panjang (length): fifteen-metre house
Jacksons need a twenty-metres house (salah)
Jacksons need a twenty-metre house (benar)
D. Harga (price): sixty-dollar camera
This is a sixty-dollars camera (salah)
This is a sixty-dollar camera (benar)
E. Bobot(weight): ten-kilo package
he has just received a ten-kilos package(sala)
He has just received a ten-kilo package (bnr)
F. Bidang (acre): twenty-acre farm
Mr. Kris has a twenty-acres farm (salah)
Mr. Kris has a twenty-acre farm (benar)
G. Waktu (time): two-hour meeting
Attending a three-hours meeting (salah)
Attending a three-hour meeting (benar)
 EXERCISE 1
A. Complete the following sentences by giving the adjective form of the
words in italic
1. You can taste this food. I am sure it is not…..
2. The strong wind makes the room……..
3. His life will be in danger if he still stay in that..
4. His body was full of blood and his….nose made him difficult to take a
breath.
5. I am very glad to hear the news of your success. You are….. Because you
always study hard
6. Nature has given us a lot, and our…… resources are decreasing rapidly.
7. The man’s death is still mistery. His ……death made the police confused.
8. I sometimes can’t keep my anger because they often makes me…
 Exercise 2
B. Rewrite the following sentences by using compound adjective
1. The woman is seventy- five years old
2. The house costs sixty million dollars
3. We took a tour that lasted five days
4. The students wrote a report that was five pages long
5. He is attending a seminar that will last two days
6. The bag weight ten kilos
7. These shoes cost ten dollars
8. The fence is twenty miles
9. The journey takes three weeks