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Tip #565: Compound adjectives


When several words are combined together to describe a noun, the new unit is called a compound adjective. Example: a million-dollar deal.

Compound adjectives typically replace longer phrases. The example above was probably converted from the phrase "a deal worth a million dollars." Compound adjectives are placed before the noun and are written with a hyphen. "Million-dollar" is the compound adjective and "deal" is the noun.







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Quiz of the week

Replace the following phrases with compound adjectives:
1. A speaker who is well known
2. A person who speaks softly
3. A building that is two stories high
4. A vehicle that is moving fast



 

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