What are the compound adjective rules?

Generally, hyphenate two or more words when they come before a noun they modify and act as a single idea. This is called a compound adjective. When a compound adjective follows a noun, a hyphen is usually not necessary. Example: The apartment is off campus.

What are compound adjectives examples?

Examples of compound adjectives

• This is a four-foot table.
• Daniella is a part-time worker.
• This is an all-too-common error.
• Beware of the green-eyed monster.
• He is a cold-blooded man.
• I love this brightly-lit room!
• He is an obedient and well-behaved dog.
• You have to be open-minded about things.

What are the rules for adjectives?

The rule is that multiple adjectives are always ranked accordingly: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose.

What is an adjective grammar monster?

Adjectives are words that describe nouns (or pronouns). “Old,” “green,” and “cheerful” are examples of adjectives. (It might be useful to think of adjectives as “describing words.”)

When do you use more than one compound adjective?

But sometimes we use more than one adjective to describe something. Compound adjectives. A compound adjective is an adjective that contains two or more words. In general we put a hyphen between two or more words (before a noun) when we want them to act as a single idea (adjective) that describes something.

How to use age as a compound adjective?

Ages As Compound Adjectives 1 He is a two-year-old horse. 2 (This is a compound adjective. It is no different from an adjective like “two-page” in “two-page document.” 3 I look after three two-year-old horses. 4 (As with most adjectives, it can modify something singular or plural.)

How are compound adjectives formed in a sentence?

A compound adjective is formed by combining a group of two or more adjectives to modify a noun or pronoun. Discover the rules regarding when and how to effectively use compound adjectives in your writing, and review some real-world examples. Because compound adjectives feature more than one word, they are phrases.

Are there any compound adjectives in the Washington Post?

Now, in The Washington Post, in three headlines on the front page of the October 19, 1994, edition, one would find three compound adjectives consisting of nouns and ‑ing verb s. Note the inconsistent approach: base-closing test expense-paring efforts intelligence gathering methods (why no hyphen?)