COMPOUND CONSONANTS 1

EXERCISE 36(A)

She put a thirteen amp plug on the table lamp.
He is a little imp, he is always playing tricks on us.
I had to pump up my bike tyres this morning.
The bus went over a bump in the road.
I had to tramp along the path in damp boots.
The chimp began to jump up and down on the log.
 

I had cramp from sleeping in the small camp tent.
A clamp is used to hold two items tightly together.
The ship’s engine made a low thumping noise.
The doctor said that mumps is a disease caused by a virus.
He took a lump of clay and made it into a pot.
The machine started pumping the water out of the hole.
 

I like to go camping with my friends in summer.
The children were jumping and bumping into each other.
The garage people have repaired the sump in my car.
I will have to buy some stamps at the store tomorrow.
They were tramping through the swamp all day.
We have planted some very tall bamboo plants.
 

She began to increase the tempo of the music.

We shall have to take on extra temporary staff this month.

The adverts seem to impel us to buy more shampoo.
She said that all this would embarrass the family.
I shall embark on a new career at the embassy.
The building was embellished with colourful paintings.

The ambassador came into the room to talk to the official.
They will have to impose a heavy tax to pay for all this.
She is an impostor, she is not the person she says.
I had an impulse to buy some shoes in the sale.
He told me of his impatience to leave school.
We have to import the bamboo products from overseas.
 

The water was impure and not safe to drink.
The brothers built up a vast empire of food stores.
A large import tax has been imposed on all these goods.
They imported all the wood and metal for the factory.
At the salon I had my hair shampooed and cut.
The children embellished their books with stars and stickers.

He drove the car up the ramp and into the garage.
The shops are ramping up their prices this month.
To romp means to play in a lively manner.
The children are romping about in the garden.
The rump is the back part of the animal.
They danced the rumba all night at the disco.

EXERCISE 36(B)
 

The hemp plant is used to make fibre and drugs.
This rope on the ship is made of hemp fibres.
We had to hump the heavy luggage all the way upstairs.
Humping all these heavy bags is very tiring.
A wimp is a person who is weak and timid.
A wimpy person is not going to do anything brave.
 

The campers chased the dog which was scampering about.
The cats began to scamper through the bushes.
A camber is the sloping sides of a road to allow drainage.

Once a tree is felled, the cut wood is called lumber.

Moving the lumber in his job gave him lumbar troubles.
I have packed the hamper with all the food and drink.

We have a romper room for the children at the back.
I made a pompon for the top of the ski hat.
All this rain is not going to dampen our desire to go out.
They were dampening the dust with spray from the hose.
A hempen rope is one made of hemp fibres.
To impen means to close up in a pen or a narrow place.
 

If you impugn my words, you cast doubt on them.
A tampon is a plug of cotton fibres to stop a flow of blood.
They used steel crampons to climb the ice cliff.
Our sales campaign last year was very successful indeed.

They have been busy campaigning for a change in the law.
To lampoon is to ridicule or make a sharp satire.
 

She had an ambition to get into the champagne business.
The imposition of these rules may upset all the staff.
The puppy scampered all around the park.
The rats were scampering all over the rubbish heap.
The rain has severely hampered progress on the building.
The impending storm made them change their plans.
 

They impugned all his reasons for taking those actions.
The rain was very slight, it only dampened the paths.
I had heard that he was a very flamboyant person.
The people of the town campaigned against the new road.
The people always lampooned their leaders.
The storms put a dampener on the campaigner’s plans.

EXERCISE 36(C)
 

The garage operative pumped the truck full of fuel.
Thank you for your prompt reply to my recent call.
Last Monday I bumped into an old school friend.
They tried to tempt us with delicious chocolates.
I have made an attempt at reading your writing.
These visitors are exempt from paying the charges.
 

I tramped up the hill and dumped my luggage at the hotel.
The bear jumped up and chomped through its food.
Last Sunday we camped out in a field all night.
The hotel room was very cramped, with little space to move.
The runners limped home at the end of the five mile marathon.

The man thumped on the door and shouted loudly.
 

The garage has ramped up its prices for car repairs.
We humped the heavy boxes from the store to the truck.
The airport official stamped my passport immediately.
The hospital was swamped with people with these symptoms.
The office was empty when I arrived early yesterday.
I have told them umpteen times not to ring the office.

The notice said there are no exemptions from parking charges.

If you make an assumption, you are taking a guess.

You make a presumption when your guess has some basis.

The redemption of discount vouchers ends in two weeks.

There was a great temptation to give up on the study.

He ignored the temptation and carried on anyway.

No need to prompt him, he is already primed with an answer.
I bumped into a friend who always bummed cash from me.
She was stumped for words which stemmed from shyness.

The children were unkempt, their hair was uncombed.
The jeers damped her mood and dammed the flow of words.

He jumped into the car and jammed the door shut.

EXERCISE 36(D)
 

Jack Compton used to live in a flat in Hampstead.
Jill Thompson still lives in a house in Hampstead.
Mr Thomson said he does not live in Hamstead anymore.
I visited the town of Hampton to see the river.
Southampton is a large city on the south coast.
Northampton is located quite far north of the capital.
 

I play the trumpet and I am a trumpeter in a band.
A strumpet is a lady of ill repute or a harlot.
A crumpet is a bun or muffin made on a griddle.
A limpet is a sea animal that lives in limpid pools.
The judge imputed this crime to the parent in charge.
The forest was imbued with a sense of peace and harmony.

EXERCISE 36(E)
 

She made a very good impression at the staff meeting.
These reports imply that the business is failing.

The implication is that we must find new premises.

It will be a simple thing to implement these changes.

He gave them ample examples of how to do the job.

Please send me a sample of your new fabric.

The teacher wrote all the examples on the board.

She was very upset to find a pimple on her nose.
We simply must find a better way of writing reports.
This subject is much simpler for the children to learn.
We greatly simplified the task by using a template.

Don’t forget your umbrella as there are storms coming.

He took a tumble on the ice as he walked down the road.

The lights went out and they began to stumble in the dark.
His papers were all in a jumble on his desk.

He will probably gamble all his money away on horse racing.
Mr Smith is a very humble and hard working person.

A bramble is a briar, a thorny shrub with black berries.

This is the room in which the guests must assemble.

It is amusing* how the dogs all resemble their owners.
We went for a slow ramble over the fields and hills.

We saw some ramblers climbing over the field gate.

I filled the glass tumbler with water from the bottle.

A gambler wastes a lot of money in his life.

* Always insert the vowel sign in "amaze" and "amuse" and their derivatives

EXERCISE 36(F)
 

I am very impatient to start that new project at work.
He spoke in a very impassioned way about his hobby.
She is an impassionate person, filled with strong emotions.
The children have to be patient until the party date comes.
We are waiting patiently for them to come home.
She is passionate about her new hobby of tennis.
 

I have an important meeting at nine with some customers.
We are aware of the importance of keeping good records.
Your writing is going to improve if you practise every day.
His handwriting has indeed improved over the last month.
We have seen a great improvement in sales this month.
It is quite impossible for us to see any visitors today.
 

He is now home and more importantly his health is improving.
It is not a good thing to treat customers as unimportant.
They say she is impossibly bossy when in the office.
We are doing our best to be sympathetic in this case.
It is impossible to write as fast as that without much practice.
It seems that they can write faster than anyone we know.

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