Candle banana Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Rule for adjective participial with hyphenated words

Hi my daughter 11yrs yr 6 has been asked to explain the rule of adjective participial when using hyphenated words.

  

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It's probably a matter of "hyphenate before a noun, but not after it". ( A well-known teacher spoke to our class; That teacher is well known . ) She'll probably find the exactly answer she's looking for in one of these links.

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It's probably a matter of "hyphenate before a noun, but not after it". (A well-known teacher spoke to our class; That teacher is well known.) She'll probably find the exactly answer she's looking for in one of these links.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/hyphen/