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Re: adverb-(hyphen)-adjective

Hi Philip If you google "compound adjectives", you should be able to find a number of sources. Even Wikipedia has a bit of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound Scroll down to "Compound Hyphenated Adjectives" and then down to the part headed with "The following compound...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yankee 1 yr 198 days ago Grammar, Verbs, Nouns, Numbers, Adverbs, Hyphens, Hyphenation

I can't find a source that explains what I thought I understood many years ago. The question deals with joining an adverb and an adjective with a hyphen before the noun, but not afterward: the freshly-cut lawn smells great ~ the lawn is freshly cut he is a...

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Philip 1 yr 198 days ago Verbs, Nouns, Adverbs, Punctuation, Whom, Hyphens, Images

Re: heavy-burdened students

No, you should say "heav ily burdened students". (i.e. use an adverb and no hyphen) The word 'heavy-duty' doesn't really make sense in the sentence and also doesn't have the same meaning. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=heavy-duty&r=66

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yankee 1 yr 226 days ago Verbs, Adverbs, Hyphens
Re: proofreading#2

Ever since its birth, this dog has been with Larry. Now, the dog was malodorous, old, crippled and blind, but Larry was always with it. (The adj. stinky is too colloquial to be employed in written English.) Larry's roommate, John, wanted to get rid of the dog because he was bothered by the...

ESL Essay, Writing World by Castellano 2 yr 51 days ago Paragraphs, Spelling, Commas, Verbs, Colons, Adverbs, Proofreading, Semicolons, Hyphens
Re: badly

#1 is correct. Use the hyphens when the phrase is used to decribe a noun, but not generally after the verb. She attends school part time. (no hyphen). She is a part-time student. The other style "rule" (and I use the quotations, because this is a style, not a grammar issue, and there are...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Grammar Geek 2 yr 64 days ago Grammar, Verbs, Nouns, Adverbs, Hyphens
Re: face-to-face

“Face to face” is one of those phrases that sometimes confuse people because of it’s “made up” nature, like “one on one”. I may not be completely correct about the hyphens but this is what I understand. When the phrase is used as adjective, hyphen is supposed to be used. When...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Goodman 2 yr 67 days ago Verbs, Adverbs, Hyphens
Re: rephrase

I would advocate for the hyphen in #1. Most style guides will tell you to NOT use the hyphen with adverbs that end in -ly. So no hyphen in #2.

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Grammar Geek 2 yr 68 days ago Verbs, Adverbs, Hyphens
Re: double word adjectives

Here is a helpful website: http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/grinker/LwtaCompound_Adjectives.htm Contents | Index | Previous | Next Compound Adjectives 1. A compound adjective is formed when two or more adjectives work together to modify the same noun. These terms should be...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Goodman 2 yr 118 days ago Verbs, Nouns, Adverbs, Genders, Hyphens
Re: not good/of no good

From Wikipedia-- "A definitive collection of hyphen rules does not exist", then this-- "h yphens are generally not used in ... adverb-adjective compound modifiers". I don't know how rigid the rule is, because I'm still tempted to think that word order can be relevant: "How many...

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by davkett 2 yr 264 days ago Verbs, Adverbs, Hyphens, Word Order
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Dear teachers, Is it true that the construction "materially-progressive heaven" is incorrect in English ? First because if we use a hyphen to make a compound modifier both words should modify the noun that follows, which is not the case here since “heaven” can’t be modified by the word...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Hela 2 yr 269 days ago Verbs, Constructions, Nouns, Adverbs, Hyphens

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