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Contiluo Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Newly-built

Please check out the following sentences.

(1) Take another example.

(2) There is a newly-built lavatory reserved for the use of teachers.

(3) It is sanitary and well-maintained in the first week.
  

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Change 'is' to 'has been'.

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  • Change 'is' to 'has been'.
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Change 'is' to 'has been'.
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(2) There has been a newly-built lavatory reserved for the use of the teachers.
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There has been a newly-built lavatory for the teachers.
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No, no. You have chosen the wrong sentence to amend.
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It has been sanitary and well-maintained in the first week.
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Yes. And you should not hyphenate 'well + adj' in predicative position.
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It has been sanitary and well maintained in the first week.
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Don't put a hyphen with newly built. One of the odd things about hyphens is that they don't go with phrases that have an adverb ending in -ly. I don't know why. It's just the style.
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