Compound Modifiers 🔗 Advanced Grammar with JenniferESL 👩🏽‍🎓👨‍🎓

[@nawarnawar5822]

Hi teacher, thanks so much, I've been searching for a lesson like this quite a while, and found many but this is the best one. Many questions about " compound adjectives" have been answered today. Miss, I've watched a lesson about ' compound adjectives" produced by " BBC learning English" and they said " we don't add a hyphen if an adverb ends with " ly" and a noun comes before a compound adjectives, and all the numbers between 20 and 99 must be hyphenated So what i understand is that we can form compound adjectives like this: adj or noun or adverb + pp+ NOUN adj or noun or adverb + present participle+ NOUN Hyphenated adjectives+ NOUN Hyphenated nouns + NOUN Hyphenated numbers + NOUN And all the hyphenated words are adjective of the noun that follows. Here it is an example for each case: Brown-eyed man Space-backed fighters Well-done presentation Street-cleaning man Hard-winnig game Can we say: Hard-winning football game? Great-teaching teacher ( I don't know whether or not this compound adjective is correct) Blow-bright sky Smith-George theory Two-hundred-page.book And I hope that my examples are correct.

[@Englishwithjennifer]

Thank you for posting your comment. It's a very good one, and I'm going to pin this to the top because I need to clarify an important point. You're actually right that "a brightly lit" room is often written WITHOUT the hyphen (even before the head noun). It probably wasn't the best example to give. I apologize. However, you still may encounter its use. For example, look at the caption of a photo published by USA Today. They use "brightly-lit" as a compound modifier. www.usatoday.com/media/cinematic/video/2936287002/las-vegas-snow-makes-brightly-lit-strip-look-dreamy/ I also think it's hard to come up with rules that use the word "never," such as never use a hyphen with adverbs that end in -ly. How do you explain these dictionary entries if that rule is true? www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/tightly-knit www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/slightly-built My instinct was to hyphenate the compound: a brightly-lit room, but I can't find many other examples in published works confirming this pattern. It's mostly about trying our best to be consistent. I also have read the rule about using the hyphen when the compound modifier comes before the noun, but not when it follows a linking verb. (It's a brightly-lit room. / The kitchen was brightly lit.) In general, when it comes to grammar rules, one resource may say DO and another will say DON'T. That's when I look through the search results of trusted sources (major newspapers, etc.) to see what the standard is. Your examples look good overall, but I'm not sure what a "space-backed fighter" is. I'm also not familiar with "street-cleaning man," and it seems more natural to say "a street cleaner." Remember the difference I noted between present and past participles? If a team won a game, then "game" is the object. We can focus on that in a passive sentence: The game was won. We use the past participle because it carries that passive meaning, so the better description, in my opinion, is "a hard-won game." With the example about the teacher, I'd use a different structure: a great teacher. Otherwise, it sounds too repetitive. I'd also keep it simple in the example about the sky: a bright sky.

[@Englishwithjennifer]

One more short note: I'd personally use "tight-knit" as a modifier, not "tightly-knit," but again it's about trying to be consistent. www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/tight-knit

[@raed2178]

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[@Englishwithjennifer]

I'm sorry I wasn't more accurate to begin with! My bad cold has likely affected my judgment this week. LOL Well, I'm happy I can try to clarify here. :)

[@nawarnawar5822]

@@Englishwithjennifer many thanks for replying, I really appreciate it. About " space-backed-fighters It is an imaginary expression, and it means fighters supported by the space. I know it's ridiculous to say that , but i wanted to know if it's grammatically correct, the same thing with " street-cleaning man" and ' great-teaching teacher". I will chick out the websites you mentioned in your response. In the end, i think that there are many expressions we have to take or accept them as they are like Well-done.... Hard-working.... Blow-eyed..... Etc...

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[@Englishwithjennifer]

Thank you for the support. The important thing is to reflect after watching lesson and ask any questions to clarify. Please see the pinned comment to this video. There's a short discussion about adverbs ending in -ly. I should have been clearer about this, but I think the discussion has helped.

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[@Englishwithjennifer]

Thanks for studying with me. Note: Remember that most of the time adverbs will be adverbs, and you won't need hyphens. If you look at the pinned comment on this video, you'll see a discussion about adverbs ending in -ly. So you can talk about watching things regularly or regularly watching things. We don't need to use a hyphen with a verb phrase like "regularly watch your tutorials," and many would not hyphenate the noun phrase "regularly scheduled programming." But other adverbs in a compound would use a hyphen consistently: a well-behaved child, a well-read person, etc. Hope that makes sense.

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[@stunninglad1]

This is a very good lesson which helps clear up the mystery regarding hyphenated adjectives. We saw how the hyphenated groups of words all modified each other and were very closely linked. This one wouldn't be hyphenated as there is no link between the adjectives: 'A funny tall man has appeared on my television screen.' The words 'fast' and 'car' don't get hyphenated in this example: 'A fast car is required.' However, this one does get hyphenated; 'A fast-moving car is required.'

[@Englishwithjennifer]

It's good to note the different between compound modifiers and a sequence of adjectives. Thanks! :) Maybe we can have more fun playing around with adjectives at the next live stream.

[@stunninglad1]

@@Englishwithjennifer Yes, I think this subject has a lot of mileage in it. I really like the lesson. Jennifer, what is your opinion of this: Given that adverbs modify adjectives, verbs and other adverbs and are not known for modifying nouns, why do they act like adjectives in these examples: There are some people here. I will take a few things with me. Can we say that in these examples the adverb is acting as an adjective?

[@Englishwithjennifer]

In the first: "There are some people here." Are you focusing on "here"? I'd recognize that as an adverbial. It does get weird when words can have more than one function. That would be a special live stream for grammar nuts. ;)

[@stunninglad1]

@@Englishwithjennifer Right. The questions the adverbs ask and answer are: how, where, why and when, but they also acts as quantifiers. So, 'some' is acting in unison with 'here' in my first example (There are some people here) and 'few' is acting in unison with 'will take' in my other example (I will take a few things) There are? There are what? There are some. 'Some' would act in unison with 'are' in this example: There are some people in class. This would vary from these example: 'There are three people in class' and There are helpful students in class.' It doesn't stop with 'some' when we look at adverbs of quantity: loads of, plenty, enough, many, few, etc, etc. We could say that the adverbial quantifiers are giving a vague quantity; whereas, the actual adjectives like three, twelve, thirty are giving an exact description. Having said that, collective nouns can be a bit vague also: 'There is a crowd outside' and 'I will take a bunch.' Now for my next question...Only kidding :>)

[@Englishwithjennifer]

The tricky thing about teaching/studying grammar is deciding how much to focus on at one time and when it's worthwhile to digress. Ha ha. You're getting into expletives, a fun homonym, by the way. I took a quick glance at this. You may like the discussion. www.cjr.org/language_corner/expletives.php

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Thank you so much teacher Jennifer. I had always wondered about the use of hypen when writing a person's age.

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Glad we could clear up that doubt. :)

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[@Englishwithjennifer]

Enjoy your time in Dubai with your son. :) I hope you read the pinned comment on this video. The discussion continues. One video is never enough to address a topic. I need the opportunity to clarify and produce more examples. An interesting point came up with adverbs ending in -ly. Language is indeed malleable, and we're also not always consistent as a global community, and this causes some disagreement. But as long as we try to have standards and we are open to variation, then communication should be successful. :) Thanks for adding more examples: ready-made, hot-selling.

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Nice lesson. Good for vocabulary building and writing skill. Thanks

[@Englishwithjennifer]

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[@nimageran]

Hi dear teacher, First of all I want to say thank you for this helpful lesson. I am very pleased to watch this video and I just wrote this comment to ask you, if possible, to create more of these ones (i.e. advanced topics) for us who want to read more complicated texts and reading more advanced books or journals (such as The New Yorker, The Economist, to name but a few). I am always have this difficulty to read and find the meaning of these modifiers in the newspaper or articles, however, I am not either. Thank you ans actually you are the sweet-talking person!!

[@Englishwithjennifer]

Hi Nima. I'm going to try to keep a balance in 2019. I'd like to offer both basic and advanced lessons. There's a need for both. I hope to expand on this lesson because there's a bit more to discuss. If you come across a specific structure that's confusing, let me know. It might lead to a new lesson topic. ;) Happy to hear you're reading authentic texts like The New Yorker.

[@nimageran]

@@Englishwithjenniferyou are right and thank you for further teaching this topic in detail. I have a difficulty of understanding the meaning of the sentences with the following structure: 1) Past participle ----, independent clause. (Example: Prepared for the exam, he watch TV.) 2) ing ---, independent clause. (Example: doing his project, he go to the stadium.)

[@Englishwithjennifer]

I have a 4-part lesson on reduced adverb clauses. That might be useful for you. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJ7aiHqZjaZqq9U

[@nimageran]

@@Englishwithjennifer Hello dear teacher, I have watched these four videos, however, I am also not really understand the following question: 1) How could I know what was the original sentence (i.e., before reduction) ? How could I tell that adverb clause was Time clause or Reasoning Clause !? 2) How could I know the adverb clause words (like as, because, since, after, before!) after they have been omitted? How could I tell that the word was after or before or since !?

[@Englishwithjennifer]

Reducing clauses can happen when the subjects in both clauses are the same, and the relationship between clauses must be clearly understood. That's why in some cases we keep the adverb like "before" or "while": While taking a walk this morning, I came up with a new idea for a video. Before going to the dentist, you should brush your teeth. BUT Sitting by myself in the park for a whole hour, I had plenty of time to think. (The relationship is clear enough. It doesn't really matter whether you see it as a time relationship or a cause-effect.)

[@taoufikelmiri]

thanks for the lesson. I have a couple of questions if you don't mind : 1- Should we always combine the ending 'ed' with body parts concerning compound adjectives ? 2- Is it grammatically correct that compound adjectives whose first modifier which is an adverb with 'ly' isn't supposed to be separated by hyphen along with the second modifier ?

[@Englishwithjennifer]

Hi. (1) Compound modifiers with body parts aren't all that common, but the general pattern is to use the -ed ending: a one-eyed pirate a three-legged table a one-armed soldier a web-footed bird (2) Again, let's talk about patterns and not rules. I was taught to hyphenate compound modifiers before a noun, but I recently took the time to look at many results online, and I see the general trend is not to use hyphens in compound modifiers with -ly adverbs. Do a Google search for "heavily armed soldiers" and filter for News. The first 10 results include some major news sources, but only one (ABC news) chose to hyphenate the modifier. Here are results from the British National Corpus. www.just-the-word.com/main.pl?word=heavily&mode=combinations Look at the first cluster with adverbs as part of the modifiers before the head noun. Click on a phrase like "heavily armed" to see it used before a noun.

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Happy it's useful. There's more to talk about...more patterns to consider and some punctuation rules to discuss. I'm glad we made a good start!

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[@Englishwithjennifer]

Hi. I noted these earlier requests, particularly the modal verbs and prepositions. Little by little, we can address more grammar. :) There are many decent grammar books out there. Do you want one for self-study? I think you might also like a detailed grammar reference book, one that teachers use. Many teachers turn to The Grammar Book and Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English.

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[@Englishwithjennifer]

Try looking on Amazon. Not sure if you can find PDFs of these.

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[@Englishwithjennifer]

Yes. Many students and teachers started out with a copy of Murphy's book. If you have an answer key, that's good for self-study.

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[@Englishwithjennifer]

Hi. I have grammar videos on perfect modals (would have been, etc.) and pronunciation videos on reduction. Here's the playlist for Fast Speech. kzbin.info/aero/PLfQSN9FlyB6SEBVnec8LYuyLRvq3OcT-x Look for the lessons on reducing sounds. I explain why "would have been" sounds like "would of been" or even "woulda been."

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A light spray of cologne or perfume is nice. :)

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[@mfarooq1981]

Dear Teacher, Are compound modifiers always considered singular? Thanks!

[@Englishwithjennifer]

Compound modifiers are like adjectives, so we don't talk about plural or singular. However, if you build a modifier from a noun, then usually the singular is used: a computer program (not "computers program"), teacher training (not "teachers training"), etc.

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The librarian quickly leafed through the book. is "leafed through the book" a noun phrase with head word book?

[@Englishwithjennifer]

"Leaf through" is a phrasal verb. The object is "the book." BOOK = head noun/ THE = determiner

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[@Englishwithjennifer]

Sometimes we make up new compounds, but mostly the patterns here are to help you understand how compounds are formed when you encounter them.

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[@Englishwithjennifer]

Hi. We usually write OK and "okay." The periods are unnecessary. I usually respond within 24 hours, but some comments might be missed. Once I approve them, some disappear from my view as I go back into the list of public comments. YT can be strange that way. Thanks for your patience. I do my best. There are a lot of comments each day. ;)

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[@mohammadtariq7575]

Ma'm I have read about every phrase modifier except for participle phrase modifier. I can't see any link on internet with the name participle phrase modifier, why is it so?

[@Englishwithjennifer]

Not all sources use the same terms. Some use the same terms, but definitions can vary. Why don't you search for one of these terms: participles participial adjectives verbal adjectives participial phrases participial phrase as modifier

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The sentence: "in the image of God created them" would this be a transitive verb or ditransitive? I am thinking that it is transitive but I am having problems with the prepositional phrase

[@Englishwithjennifer]

Hi. I think a subject is missing in your statement. Who created them? I think it's logical to use the passive: They were created in the image of God. Or use "God" as the agent: God created him in His image. "Create" is transitive; it requires an object.

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@@Englishwithjennifer the subject is implied from the context. What I want to know as it stands, what classification would you give it interms of the verb? However I am working on the Hebrew verb Bara (to create) in the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. I am trying to put each occurrence in transitive ditransitive or intransitive in order to classify them for investigation. I am using cognitive semantics as my methodology.

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[@mohammadtariq7575]

Ma'm it is said that participle is used as an adjective e.g. working woman, burnt toast or as a noun e.g. good breeding. However when I search for participle on Wikipedia, it says in its first and second line "a participle ... plays a role similar to an adjective or adverb." I have understoold participle's role as adjective and noun, but how about its role as adverb?

[@Englishwithjennifer]

Participles are most often used in verb forms and as modifiers (adjectives).

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[@mohammadtariq7575]

Dear Ma'am can we call every adverb and adverb clause modifiers also ..

[@Englishwithjennifer]

Adverbs are modifiers. There single-word adverbs and adverb clauses. Does that make sense?

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[@mohammadtariq7575]

Ma'm it is said that Quantifier is a kind of determiner but what confuses me is that few grammar links show determiners as modifiers. For example a site says "that" is the modifier in noun phrase "that dog" while other sites quote demonstrative adjectives as determiners. Is there any easy way to distinguish between them or it is ok to use these terms interchangeably? Kindly guide me so that I never confuse these terms.

[@Englishwithjennifer]

Hi. Most think of adjectives and adverbs being modifiers. We can also have noun modifiers and prepositional phrases as modifiers (acting like adjective or adverbs). Not all agree on terminology. Did you see my 3-part lesson on the parts of speech? See my grammar playlist. Quantifiers are often grouped under determiners. I think it's helpful to separate determiners from modifiers, but again, not all sources agree. Useful links: dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/determiners/determiners-position-and-order www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/modifier

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[@mohammadtariq7575]

"The family was entertained by the clown" Ma'm can we say that in above sentence participle phrase "entertained by the clown" is functioning as a modifier of the noun phrase "the family"?

[@Englishwithjennifer]

That's a passive construction. subject = the family was entertained = passive verb by the clown = prepositional phrase to name the performer (agent) SVA

[@waleedahmedshafiq7974]

state verb and action verb always confuse me. How can I avoid confusion?

[@Englishwithjennifer]

It can be a future topic for a lesson. :) Use a learner's dictionary to confirm usage. www.ldoceonline.com/ www.learnersdictionary.com/

[@mfarooq1981]

Hello Dear Teacher, I would like to know grammar behind this concept. In the following pharases, past participle is used in the begining. 1- Skilled Nursing Units 2- Assisted-Living Facilities Thank you

[@Englishwithjennifer]

The past participles modify the following words: What kind of nursing? Skilled nursing. What kind of living? Assisted living. (No hyphen needed.)

[@mfarooq1981]

@@Englishwithjennifer It means that they are working as adjectives because they're modifying nursing units & living facilities. Am I right? One more question, you mentioned skill nursing. Should it be skill nursing or skilled nursing? Thank you

[@Englishwithjennifer]

Typo. Sorry! I fixed that. Yes, I see them as modifying the following nouns.

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[@mohammadtariq7575]

"That painting is not unlike one I saw in New York. Your drawing looks very much like a dog. His directions are not very much like the original." It is said that in above sentences, adverbs are functioning as modifiers of prepositional phrase, however I am unable to spot prepositions in the above sentences. Kindly guide me. Source: parentingpatch.com/prepositional-phrase-modifier-english-grammar/

[@Englishwithjennifer]

The prepositions are "unlike" and "like." One might argue the adverbs modify the verbs, by the way.

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