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How should we make a compound adjective of an intransitive verb?
I saw a man-eating alligator.
She has a man-crying poem.
Eat is a transitive verb. The man-eating alligator is one that eats man. It is fine to me. But the confusion is that if we make it as “She ...
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Complex sentence and Compound sentence
I was standing on the sidewalk but I was too ashamed to walk in.
I was standing on the sidewalk but too ashamed to walk in.
So the first one is obviously a compound sentence, but what about the ...
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"polluted-air-related disease" or "polluted air-related disease"?
The exhaust produced by the automobile increases the rate of polluted-air-related diseases.
That's my original sentence. Grammarly changed it into "polluted air-related diseases". I think ...
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"doing that look-away thing" vs "looking away"
I found a sentence (in bold) from a children's book called Wonder by R. J. Palacio.
If I found a magic lamp and I could have one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed ...
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Can we write compound sentences like this, using more than two conjunctions?
Example 1
I was going to mention the divorce rate, but I thought of the fact that children were there, so I did not really say it.
Example 2
I was going to mention the divorce rate, but I thought ...
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three-cent-an-hour raise
I was told that compound modifiers containing a noun should have the noun in the singular, e.g., "a 20-kilometer race" and "a 40-year-old man." Which of the following is okay? A ...
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How to understand 'A is as simple as B is complicated'?
I see one sentence in my book:
It is easy to see that A is as simple as B is complicated.
I know the subject of the sentence is "it" that is "A is as simple as B is complicated", ...
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Where to place the plural mark in 3-word compound words?
This question is similar to this one (and other on the site), but with three elements in the compound word. In a technical context, where a bin is a range of frequency values and a bin is referred to ...
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Should a past continuous be followed by past perfect continuous or past continuous?
"I was looking for my watch which had been stolen earlier"
or should it be-
"I was looking for my watch which was stolen earlier"
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Hyphens or no hyphens in well(-)thought(-)through?
Which of the following is the correct form?
well thought through
well thought-through
well-thought-through
I've tried googling, and all three seem to occur to quite some extent, but does that mean ...
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compound adjectives with "-made"
Can compound adjectives ending in -made denote something that is made of or from a material?
For example, is "seaweed-made packaging" okay?
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"-style" and "-like" in compound adjectives
To describe something that looks similar to something else, English provides us style and like words to create compound adjectives. For example:
Elvis–Presley-style dance
Elvis–Presley-like dance
Or:...
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Hyphen usage with with multiple compound adjectives separated by or/and
I have the following question. I have a structure like this:
dark-looking or sinister-looking
Can I write it like this:
dark- or sinister-looking
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Am i using is/are correctly in these sentence?
His house and my house is close to school canteen (I used "is" instead of 'are" because we are co-owner/sharing one house)
His house and my house is close to school canteen (we both ...
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serrated three stripes mark
Should the boldfaced phrase in the following have been "three-stripe mark" or "three-striped mark"?
The toy company's designers have been faithful to the original sneaker, with ...
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Are there compound words whose meanings would be changed once there is a change in stress?
I have one true-or-false question.
The different stress used in a compound do not usually affect the meaning of the compound.
The example used in my book to illustrate why this statement is false is ...
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What verb to use with Only
Which sentence is correct? Which verb should I use when only is present at the beginning of the sentence?
Only me and Alia was there
Only me and Alia were there
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How do compound adjectives semantically work?
For example, there are words, “omnipotent” and “godlike.” If two words are combined, does “omnipotent godlike” mean “like an omnipotent god”?
…be described using five terms: “green-unripe”, “green-...
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Ant-keeping? Or Antkeeping?
Up until now I was under the impression that hyphens are very rare in the English language. At least when it comes down to compounds. (This is different from my native language, where it is rather ...
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Multi-word Compound Adjectives with Past Participle [duplicate]
In the sentence:
The cost overrun was due to a higher-than-budgeted consumption of electricity,
should higher-than-budgeted be hyphenated?
It seems to me that it should definitely be hyphenated, ...
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How to understand "As luck would have it"?
When you create macros, you may want to have a clear and easy way to run each macro. A
basic button can provide a simple but effective user interface. As luck would have it, Excel offers a set of form ...
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How to read this line after "and"
I was reading a book and read a sentence which is
Vyasa draws attention to the dangers of lust and blind obedience to the father when Shantanu agrees to the conditions laid down by Ganga.
Does and ...
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Why it is "A question bank" and not "A questions bank"?
Why we call it "A question bank" or "Question bank" in a singular form of "question"?
Why it is not "questions" in a plural form,
'cause it implies for many ...
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What does "new technology–based solutions" mean?
New technology–based solutions
Does it mean
Solutions that are based on new technology
or
New solutions that are based on technology?
I think it can read as both.
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Can I say "The country's ongoing widely discussed problems are hopeless"
Can I use the combination of "adjective + adverb + adjective + noun" like
The country's ongoing widely discussed problems are hopeless.
(Or instead do I need to say ongoing widely-discussed ...
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"A well Oxford-educated politician" OR "A well-Oxford-educated politician"?
I saw many examples like "He is an Oxford-educated politician" and I'm curious about the usage of hyphens here by adding "well" in the front.
Is it
"He is a well-Oxford-...
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Street smart: modify adjectives with nouns?
I was confused by the roles of nouns in English. It seems that nouns can modify verbs as stated in this qeustion and adjectives in these examples:
Do You Know How to Be Street Smart?
... the prior ...
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Adverb: Please Facebook message me?
I encountered a phrase like this: we can Monte Carlo approximate it, and it is not uncomprehensible but I wonder if we can always use a noun as an adverb? Also refer to this sentence: The reason for ...
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Is it '55-minutes meeting' or '55-minute meeting'?
Which of the following two constructions is correct?
a 55-minute meeting
a 55-minutes meeting
That is, should 'minute' be followed by 's'?
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"Backyard" vs "Front yard" - same but different
Not really a serious English question, more like a curiosity.
I am wondering, why "backyard" is written as one word but "front yard" is written as two separate words. Equivalently, ...
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Word + "-associated" (Simplified and clarified)
Would you agree that the expression "a ragtime-associated song" implies that those who expressed their views on this song associate it with ragtime ?
While "a ragtime-related song" ...
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Improving the sentence [closed]
"You must work hard or you will not succeed in life"
How can I convert the above into simple sentence?
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Can I make a phrasal verb into these forms?
Clean something up with the machine
cleaned-up car
car-cleaning-up machine
cleaning-car-up machine
cleaned-with-the-machine car
Four are all possible?
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Translations of older or historical professions from German
Should the German term "Bauernvogt", literally meaning "peasants' bailiff" be kept as "Bauernvogt", translated to "peasants' vogt", "vogt of peasantry"...
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For the 20 minutes cooking time
Leave the vegetables to steam over the rice for the 20 minutes cooking
time
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/es/diccionario/ingles-espanol/cooking-time
Shouldn't the phrase be "for the 20 ...
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Your selves, yourselves or neither?
When trying to substitute “subconscious, conscious” with the word “selves” in the following definition:
Meditation- the art of becoming one with your subconscious & conscious.
...become one ...
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Is this grammatically correct "was and continues to be doing something"?
I'm confused by the construction "the team was and continues to be doing something".
I'd simply say "the team has been doing something". But the sentence is meant to point out the persistence of ...
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three-word compound adjective hyphenation
Which is correct
Robotic assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy; or
Robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy.
Similarly also for,
Robotic assisted medial and lateral meniscus repair; or
Robotic-...
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Using adjectives with the hyphen (-) [duplicate]
I know that some adjectives are written after the hyphen "-" like sentence one below. Actually I don't know the grammatical rule behind that, but could I replace sentence one with sentence two?
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Is comma discouraged in compound predicates even within long sentences?
I'm checking my new formal document with Grammarly, and feel uncomfortable seeing it suggesting I remove the comma in many compound predicates, even in longer ones. For example, the following sentence ...
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Worshipping or worshipper?
What’s the difference between the sentences given below?
He is a God-worshipping.
He is a God worshipper.
To my knowledge the first one (God-worshipping) is a compound adjective, but I can’t ...
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User properties vs users properties
If I had a file with the properties (names, ages and the like) of the users of some app, which one sentence would be correct to say "I have a file with the user properties" or "I have a file with the ...
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Is it natural to say something is full-white?
This is certainly not sponsored by a washing powder brand. Would it sound natural (day-to-day basis) to say that something is "full-white", meaning white in its entirety?
e.g. This surface is full-...
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Should vertically carved have a hyphen?
I described this as "vertically carved characters":
I was told that you usually put an hyphen when you have a verb.
I did a Google search, and I found both the hyphen and hyphenless versions:
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How to hyphenate an adjective+noun+gerund adjective compound?
We're used to adjective compounds, such as:
a decision-making process
or
a cancer-causing lotion.
But what if I want to add an adjective to the noun?
For example:
a corporate decision-...
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Compound words with "dog" in front [closed]
I need to make two compound words with the word "dog" to be the first part of the compound word. Those words should mean;
1. person given all the hard, boring job;
2. exhausted, worn out.
I would ...
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On the expression "sun-down"
She took a factory job working from sun-down to sun-up. (Source: Drifting )
I think sun-down expression seems to have been made from "the sun is down", but what I want to know is what is the rule ...
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Any vs some; if S + any vs if S + some
Well, these two words drive me crazy every time I try to chew the cud in order to draw a clear line between them. ANY and SOME. Please consider the following:
If you have any/some money, please let ...
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Which is correct: I've (just) cancelled the trained/train armies?
Which of these phrases is correct:
I've just cancelled the trained armies?
Or
I've cancelled the train armies?
I've just played Clash of Clans and one of my friends says he has cancelled the ...
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There will not be after school class tomorrow, will be?
There will not be after school class tomorrow, will be ?
Is this question grammatically correct ?