At the end of this lesson you'll be able to:
Vocabulário:
to be prevented from making progress , communications personnel responsible for receiving and transmitting messages, something that endangers people’s lives, to occupy, something that requires a lot of time, false, not genuineGramática:
Adjetivos composto hifenadosCategorias:
telefone, conversas, emergências, notíciasHYPHENATED COMPOUND ADJECTIVES
Diálogo: "I think the public need to be aware that 911 is still for life-threatening emergencies."
A "compound adjective" is hyphenated if the hyphen helps the reader differentiate a compound adjective from two adjacent adjectives that each independently modify the noun.
Compare the following examples:
1) Hyphenated compound adjectives may be formed by :
a) an adjective preceding a noun:
b) a verb preceding an adjective or adverb:
c) a verb preceding a preposition.
2) The decision to place a hyphen between two words or to leave the hyphen out will often have a significant effect on the meaning of a sentence. Let's take a look at some examples:
3) Hyphenated compound adjectives are used only before nouns. When they come after nouns, they are not hyphenated. Let's see some examples.
Some people have nothing better to do with their time than to joke around and annoy other people. But let's face it, a quick prank call every once in a while has never killed anybody...or has it? In this lesson Ashley and Josh talk about calls to an emergency services number, that aren't exactly emergencies.
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