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Trey Parker, 40s, average-looking, rapidly-receding hairline, walks into a bar.
- Is it correct to hyphenate average-looking and rapidly-receding?
- Does rapidly-receding sound worse (if you don't wish to get bald) than fast-receding and quickly-receding?
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- Is it correct to hyphenate average-looking and rapidly-receding? "Average-looking" is a compound word, a single word consisting of adj+verb, so the two bases should be hyphenated. Other similar examples include "strange-looking" and "hard-working".
- - Is it correct to hyphenate average-looking and rapidly-receding?
- "Average-looking" is a compound word, a single word consisting of adj+verb, so the two bases should be hyphenated.
- Other similar examples include "strange-looking" and "hard-working".
- By contrast, I'd say that "rapidly receding" is not a compound word but an adverb+verb syntactic construction, so it should not be hyphenated.
- anonymous Does rapidly-receding sound worse (if you don't wish to get bald) than fast-receding and quickly-receding?
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anonymousTrey Parker, 40s, average-looking, rapidly-receding hairline, walks into a bar.- Is it correct to hyphenate average-looking and rapidly-receding?
"Average-looking" is a compound word, a single word consisting of adj+verb, so the two bases should be hyphenated. Other similar examples include "strange-looking" and "hard-working".
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