HYPHENS

source: MrSkypelessons    2017年5月12日
In this lesson we focus on the use of the HYPHEN in English.

no-one
part-time
take-off
drip-proof

This is a well-known story
This story is well known

He looks like he is from the nineteenth century
He's a nineteenth-century figure

That's an up-to-date gadget
That gadget is up to date

Twenty odd people came to the party (20 strange people)
Twenty-odd people came to the party (roughly 20)

250 year old trees (250 1 year old trees)
250-year-old trees (trees which were 250 years old)

He's a smooth talking puppet (smooth and talking)
He's a smooth-talking puppet (charming)

He's a quick thinking man (a fast man and a thinking man)
He's a quick-thinking man (a fast brain)

His shoes were worn out.
He was wearing worn-out shoes

non-negotiable
pre-Socratic
pre-emptive

south-east
twenty-three

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