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Jigneshbharati Posted 6 years ago
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Fear-crazed

fear a worthy ... Incredibly, the fear-crazed chicken hobbled toward him and clung to the legs of his trousers.
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I know "fear-crazed" is a compound adjective describing chicken. Could you please expand the compound adjective so that I can understand its meaning?

How do we know that we need the past participle "crazed" and not just the noun(craze) or present participle?

  

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Jigneshbharati I know "fear-crazed" is a compound adjective describing chicken. Could you please expand the compound adjective so that I can understand its meaning? fear-crazed ~ crazed by fear The chicken was made to go crazy because of fear.

  • Jigneshbharati I know "fear-crazed" is a compound adjective describing chicken.
  • Could you please expand the compound adjective so that I can understand its meaning?
  • fear-crazed ~ crazed by fear The chicken was made to go crazy because of fear.
  • Jigneshbharati How do we know that we need the past participle "crazed" and not just the noun(craze) or present participle?
  • Present participles are active participles.
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JigneshbharatiI know "fear-crazed" is a compound adjective describing chicken. Could you please expand the compound adjective so that I can understand its meaning?

fear-crazed ~ crazed by fear

The chicken was made to go crazy because of fear.

JigneshbharatiHow do we know that we need the past participle "crazed" and not jus

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