compound adjectives
. These are adjectives built of more than one word. You’ll see common examples that you can use, and learn how to write them correctly. I’ll also teach you how to avoid a common error that many English learners make, so that you can write correctly and confidently. Impress your friends, co-workers, and teachers by using compound adjectives. Want to practice what you’ve learned? Do the exercises on engVid!
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Thank my best teacher, and I have a question why did you spill a number in question ( 3,7 and 9) when it was over ten? why did not you writ a number?
SOM3A, it’s a general suggestion and shortcut you can use, but you don’t have to write in numbers all the time. It also depends what style your company prefers.Thanks for paying attention so well! I wish you all the best.
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Hi Teacher, you deserve that big recognition; Great lesson, kind of advanced, but easy explained with all the basics, some of your co-workers avoid the basics or reference to past lessons that not help at the moment; One improve idea may you like to take or talk with the website administrator/owner is to re-make the old lessons, the bad think with this lessons is the sound, sound like was recorded inside a box, is kind of annoying comparing with the new lesson records, and don’t forget to delete the old versions.
Eduardom49, thanks so much for your very kind and thoughtful comments. We are, in fact, re-recording some of our earlier videos. I hope you made progress with the essay part of the exam you had mentioned last time. May your improved English help you achieve your highest goals. My warm wishes to you, Eduardo.
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The quote isn’t obviously mine, belongs to Ellen Glasgow
Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you teach it
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Thanks so much, Frances2. I try my best to do that. I really appreciate your feedback. My best wishes to you.
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Yurei78, I think you wanted to say:
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or
No-one like you!
In this case, if you add the “s” to the word “likes”, it means that no-one cares about you. I think you didn’t mean that, but if you did, then that’s fine too! I wish you all the best.
Hi. Why don’t I need hyphens in “Seven Mile Bridge”?
Technically, you do need a hyphen. They forgot.
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can anyone explain me question 3 7 and 9
You are concerned because the answers are written in words, instead of numbers. Please see my reply to SOM3A above. Writing in numbers is a stylistic option, not a rule. All the best to you, xirin4u.com.
It has been a review lesson about compound adjectives, a basic topic that it’s easy to fail or mistake it you forget the rule of dropping the “-s” and writing the hyphen, that it is also a very common error when you haven’t often practised them, it’s a normal situation to change compound adjective by other words in the sentences. Thanks a lot, teacher Rebecca, without your advice and aid, it would be more complicated to learn English grammar, this video class has been very useful as always.
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May I suggest something, it is possible to put a number to the videos. It would help a lot to find one, there are so many right now. You are wonderful.Thanks.
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My thanks to all of you for your kind and useful feedback. It always means a lot to hear from you. Sorry I cannot reply to each one, but I do read every comment and appreciate the sentiments and suggestions. Telling your friends and teachers about engvid, and subscribing to my youtube channel, would also help a lot, so we can continue to make new lessons. Thanks again.
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Just one question about numbers : What about the number “ten” ? ten or 10 ????
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Hi Rebecca, I love your lessons thx! I have a doubt about one of the questions of the quiz: you wrote “You have to watch it all! It’s a __________ series.” the verb and the subject are singular… why did you use serieS with the plural??? I hope it was clear!!
Hi! I’m not Rebecca…but “series” is the singular and plural! It’s a bit confusing.
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Thank you very much, it is very interesting and pertinent. Thanks Rebecca!
Compound adjectives are used to describe characters and places in many contexts, like in the book narratives. Thanks for this lesson Rebecca!
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Thank you for this lesson, but I have a question regarding this tuition.
Can I use these compound adjectives during (very) formal writing ?
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Your lesson full-of-knowledge but, For me it is difficult to use it all on daily basis.Please provide your valuable- suggestion for improvement in my writing ability.I have objective to achieve band-8 in IELTS exam .
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Thank you Rebecca you are kind-heart teacher. I understood everything but i think the word HACK is confusing me can you explain word HACk what is synonym for that word? there are many explanation for that ford in my language. please
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Hi Rebecca, I just want to address your example sentence about compound adjectives which is ‘the conference was three days long.’ You changed it to, “it was a three-day conference.’ I was wondering if we could possibly include the word ‘long’ in the compound adjectives so we could write instead, “it was a three-day-long conference.” is that possible or is there a certain rule about it? Thank you!
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I watched this video twice on June 28, 2021, and took the quiz after watching it once. I got nine correct out of nine.
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I watched this video one more time on July 18, 2021.
Hi, I hope you’re OK. I want to ask how to write “research” in plural.
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9/9 for this. Honestly, I don’t know the proper use of the compound adjective until I found this video in engvid. Again thank you very much for this wonderful English language tutorial especially to mam Rebecca with the ability to simplify the way of teaching. It’s a kind-rarest teacher.
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