Hi, Could I put the word "Korean" before the word "context" to make it a compound word (?) for the purpose of making it part of a long adjective that involves a hyphen? I don't think I can separate the words "Korean

Hi Pola, and welcome to the forums! When you want to use describe different aspects of something (color and texture, size and color, etc.) don't link them with hyphens. You really need to change your word order. He was a young man with

Generally speaking, hyphens are used in compound adjectives using comparatives and superlatives. However, I personally would not use a hyphen in your sentences. In your sentences, you can avoid the hyphenation question completely simply by

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

I could be wrong, but I think B sounds better. I don't believe that you should have the hyphen after Longhorn, though, because the original word "Longhorn cattle" isn't hyphenated. But I haven't been in school for a few years, so I could very well

"mountain" is a noun, however the wider sentence does not (cannot) treat this word in isolation, or as part of its OWN syntax. It's just like in math, when you say: 1+2*3, you have to parse (2*3) FIRST before you can parse the rest, which then