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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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