Question

Which of the words given below can be placed after the word ‘fast’ to form a compound word.
A. Play
B. Food
C. Run
D. Cycle

Answer 1

Hint: Compound words are the words that are formed by joining two words and the word formed thus formed, has a completely new meaning. There can be three types of compound words. Open compound words (e.g. ice cream), closed compound words (e.g. basketball)and hyphenated compound words (e.g. short term).

Complete answer:
Let us combine all the given options with the word ‘ fast’ to find out the combinations that can give us a compound word.
A) Correct option -When we combine the words ‘fast’ and ‘play’ we get fast play which is an open compound word. Fast play refers to those games that give instant cash rewards. Such games are usually related to betting, poker games or scratch card games.
B) Correct option - When we combine the words ‘fast’ and ‘food’ we get fast-food which is a hyphenated compound word. Fast-food means the commercial food that is served at various dining places/delivered at home/packed for take away/processed, frozen and packed.
C) Incorrect option - When we combine the words ‘fast’ and ‘run’ we get the word fast run which is not a compound word. In fact we have the phrase ‘ run fast’ and nothing like ‘fast run’.
D) Incorrect option - When we combine the words ‘fast’ and ‘cycle’ we get the word fast cycle which is not a compound word.

Therefore the correct answer are option ‘A’ and ‘B’.

Note: Compound words are also known as compound nouns when two nouns join to form a new noun. Compound words can be formed both with the help of suffix and prefix.
i) Blackboard
ii) Train-Spotting
iii) Football
iv) Bustop