Compound adjectives with hyphens in them include: adjective/adverb + present participle a hard-working student, a good-looking man ages and numbers before a noun eighteen-year-old students, a two-door ...

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Carlos Cajina from Nicaragua asks: Compound adjectives can be: 1. Joined by a hyphen 2. Appear as a single word 3. Appear as two separate words. Is there a rule - or set of rules - to know when to use ...

Tomokje, studying English in The Netherlands, writes: Sometimes when I read English newspapers or books I see some words with hyphens between them, for example densely-populated. I do not know what ...