Exercise 2: Compound nouns

 Compound nouns

2Complete the sentences with the correct phrase. 

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• price tag
• air-conditioning
• cotton fields
• discount shop
• export company
• second-hand
• factory workers
• sweatshop

• 1He can't afford new clothes, so he always buys them from a   shop.

• 2It's so hot in here. I think the   system is broken.

• 3She works for an  , selling cars to the American market.

• 4You'd better ask the shop assistant how much this costs. There isn't a   on it.

• 5These refrigerators are so expensive. It must be possible to get them cheaper from a  .

• 6I won't buy any of those cheap cotton T-shirts. I'm sure they were made in a   somewhere.

• 7It was a difficult life working in the   - hard work and low pay.

• 8When the boss refused to increase their pay, the   walked out.