Exposition 06: Adjectival Phrases and Hyphenation

Adjectival Phrases are Multi-Word Sequences Which Describe a Noun.

The convention in English is to hyphenate them (“a low-power processor”, a “post-modern teacup”)


Note: The title of slide 4of video has a typo (Should read “Adjectival Phrases: Compound Words Acting as an Adjective“)

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P. Stanley-Marbell. "Exposition 06: Adjectival Phrases and Hyphens", Foundations of Embedded Systems (online), https://f-of-e.org/exposition-06/.
@article{f-of-e:Exposition06,
  title = {Exposition 06: Adjectival Phrases and Hyphens},
  author = {Phillip Stanley-Marbell},
  booktitle = {Foundations of Embedded Systems},
  numpages = {11},
  url = {https://f-of-e.org/exposition-06/}
  year={2021},
}
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