"compound" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He makes rich use of decorative language and florid compound adjectives.
- Unlike its big brother, small-bore is used only as a compound adjective and is almost always hyphenated.
- That compound adjective, more than four centuries old, describes a gentle form of bridle bit.
- What single term epitomizes the triumph of the compound adjective?
- The most widely understood sense of this compound adjective is the new sense of forthcoming.
- In our time, those two short words have fused into a compound adjective with a wholly different meaning, and that modifier is sweeping the language.
- Hyphens are unnecessary in other unambiguous, regularly used compound adjectives.
- Only for an appreciation of the best coinage of a compound adjective in the 1988 election campaign.
- This is the hottest compound adjective around today, leaving all other focuses fuzzy.
- I was about to take my colleague to task for failing to hyphenate best known when using it as a compound adjective.
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