Hyphen or No Hyphen?

Hello Guest

I myself would use a hyphen:

'A life-changing event.'

MrP

The hyphen is used to signal a compound modifier. No hyphen is needed if no noun is being modified. For example:

"This is a life-changing moment!"
The moment is neither life, nor changing. It is life changing.

"That radio broadcast was life-changing!"
Though it is at the end of a sentance, the linking verb still links it back to the noun (radio broadcast) and it still n

Thanks

only use the hypen if a noun follows it such as "life-changing event" but "something is life changing" does not require it.

Thanks Dave!

what about the flip? I heard a changed-life sermon?

Should I use a hyphen for life changing

Life-changing

but one can argue that a hyphen is only needed to resolve an ambuity, as in a "I was in a restaurant yesterday and I saw a man eating shark". Was it a man, eating some shark ? Or a shark that eats men ?

Since I do not know what a "changing event" could be, nor even how "life" could describe such a "changing event", there is no ambiguity, and so a "life changing event" is also fine.