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Introducing…. Hyphenated Modifiers

Introducing…. Hyphenated Modifiers. Hyphe-what? Modi-who? Oh yes. We hope you’re getting can’t-wait-to-learn-about-these excited. We sure are. A HYPHEN acts like a MAGNET. Hyphens join TWO or MORE words together

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Introducing…. Hyphenated Modifiers

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  1. Introducing….Hyphenated Modifiers Hyphe-what? Modi-who? Oh yes. We hope you’re getting can’t-wait-to-learn-about-these excited. We sure are.

  2. A HYPHENacts like a MAGNET • Hyphens join TWO or MORE words together • With HM’s a hyphen joins those words to act as a SINGLE ADJECTIVE placed **BEFORE** a noun in order to modify it • Examples: • TAKE-HOME TEST • BRIGHT-SHINING STARS WORD 1 WORD 2 NOUN

  3. TAKE-HOME TEST TAKE HOME test • We’re not describing a TAKE TEST or a HOME TEST, but a TAKE-HOME TEST • TAKE-HOME acts as a single adjective that modifies TEST

  4. BRIGHT-SHINING STARS BRIGHT SHINING stars • We’re not simply describing BRIGHT STARS or SHINING STARS, but more specifically, BRIGHT-SHINING STARS • BRIGHT-SHINING acts as a single adjective that modifies STARS

  5. Hyphenated modifiers in books… • “My father swings his head back toward George Fuller and fixes him with his my-eyes-are-about-to-explode glare” (Hautman, Invisible, 58). • “Every time an experiment failed, Stanley could hear him cursing his dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-grandfather” (Sachar, Holes, 8).

  6. Other examples… • “Not a cheery kelly green or a cool emerald green or even a daring lime green but a puke-your-guts-out-after-split-pea-soupgreen accented with khaki trim” (Grogan, 5). • “If there could be bottlenose dolphins and hammerhead sharks, who was I to say there was no such species as a finger-finned-something-or-other?”(Velde, 20).

  7. Practice as a Class: • She had that _____________look when she saw what was outside her car window.

  8. Practice as a Table: • The First Lady expressed her ____________opinion of the lady sitting next to her with a mere look.

  9. Practice Individually: • We want to share our _____________ feelings with the world!

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