Hyphenation
6 Minute Vocabulary
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Hello
and
welcome
to
Six
Minute
Vocabulary
.
I'm
Neal
.
And
I'm
Catherine
.
And
today
we're
talking
about
hyphenation
hyphens
,
those
little
signs
like
dashes
that
we
use
in
writing
to
join
two
words
together
.
Yes
.
Like
in
old
fashioned
,
there's
always
a
hyphen
between
old
and
fashioned
.
So
let's
start
with
a
clip
from
Brian
.
He's
a
news
reporter
and
he's
reporting
from
a
high
school
about
an
election
.
Think
about
this
question
while
you're
listening
.
How
does
Brian
describe
the
young
people
at
the
school
?
Here's
Brian
.
I
asked
some
18
year
old
students
at
secondary
school
how
they're
voting
in
this
year's
election
.
They're
all
hard
working
young
people
,
22
of
them
are
undecided
and
are
likely
to
make
a
last
minute
decision
.
But
a
sizable
group
say
today's
politicians
are
not
well
respected
and
their
attitudes
are
out
of
date
.
Back
to
the
studio
.
So
we
asked
you
,
how
does
Brian
describe
the
young
people
at
the
school
?
And
the
answer
is
,
he
says
they
are
hard
working
.
That
means
they
work
hard
.
Now
,
there
are
lots
of
compound
adjectives
like
hard
working
that
we
make
with
an
adjective
or
adverb
,
like
hard
plus
a
present
participle
like
working
.
And
we
always
write
them
with
a
hyphen
.
So
hard
hyphen
working
.
And
we
can
make
compound
adjectives
and
other
ways
to
listen
to
this
clip
for
three
more
examples
.
I
asked
some
18
year
old
students
at
this
secondary
school
how
they're
voting
in
this
year's
election
.
22
of
them
are
undecided
and
are
likely
to
make
a
last
minute
decision
.
First
,
we
had
18
year
old
students
,
18
year
old
is
an
adjective
made
from
three
words
joined
together
with
hyphens
.
When
we
write
age
before
a
noun
,
we
use
Ivens
18
hyphen
year
hyphen
old
.
Exactly
.
And
it's
the
same
with
numbers
.
For
example
,
we
write
the
phrase
a
two
door
car
like
this
,
a
two
hyphen
door
car
.
But
that's
only
four
numbers
before
the
noun
,
if
you
the
students
are
18
years
old
,
you
don't
need
hyphens
.
Now
,
the
second
compound
in
that
clip
was
22
.
And
the
rule
is
always
use
hyphens
in
numbers
from
21
to
99
,
20
,
hyphen
one
290
,
hyphen
nine
.
Good
.
Now
,
the
last
compound
adjective
we
had
there
was
last
minute
the
students
were
going
to
make
a
last
minute
decision
and
that's
the
adjective
last
plus
a
noun
.
Minett
joined
with
a
hyphen
.
Now
for
another
clip
,
listen
out
for
some
more
compound
adjectives
.
A
sizable
group
say
today's
politicians
are
not
well
respected
and
their
attitudes
are
out
of
date
.
Well
respected
.
That's
an
adverb
.
Well
,
and
the
past
participle
of
a
verb
respected
.
And
together
they
make
an
adjective
and
the
two
parts
of
the
adjective
need
a
hyphen
when
we
write
them
before
a
noun
.
So
it's
a
well
respected
politician
with
a
hyphen
,
well
hyphen
.
Respected
politician
.
Yes
,
but
in
a
phrase
like
the
politicians
were
well
respected
.
We
don't
use
a
hyphen
because
the
adjective
comes
after
the
noun
,
not
before
.
And
that
rule
is
the
same
for
three
word
compound
adjectives
like
out
of
date
.
So
the
phrase
out
of
date
attitudes
has
hyphens
because
the
adjective
is
before
the
noun
,
but
the
phrase
their
attitudes
are
out
of
date
doesn't
have
hyphens
.
Exactly
.
And
one
last
rule
is
that
we
never
use
hyphens
in
compound
adjectives
that
have
an
adverb
which
ends
in
our
Y
.
No
,
we
don't
.
So
in
phrases
like
a
carefully
written
letter
,
we
don't
use
hyphens
.
Now
let's
talk
about
compound
nouns
.
In
our
,
Brian
was
reporting
from
a
secondary
school
and
the
phrase
secondary
school
is
a
compound
noun
and
there's
no
hyphen
in
it
.
there
isn't
.
Most
compound
nouns
are
written
as
two
separate
words
.
If
you're
not
sure
,
check
in
a
good
dictionary
.
Six
minutes
from
the
BBC
and
it's
time
for
a
quiz
.
No
one
wants
the
compound
adjective
in
this
sentence
and
doesn't
need
a
hyphen
.
We
were
late
because
of
the
slow
moving
traffic
.
Slow
moving
is
the
compound
A.
and
it
needs
a
hyphen
.
Very
good
.
And
number
two
,
is
there
a
hyphen
in
a
40
mile
run
?
Yes
,
there
is
40
hyphen
mile
run
our
number
three
.
That
teacher
was
a
very
well
liked
.
Is
there
a
hyphen
and
well-liked
?
We
don't
need
a
hyphen
that
well
done
.
If
you
got
those
right
.
Before
we
go
,
here's
a
vocabulary
.
When
you're
reading
,
make
a
note
of
compound
adjectives
and
nouns
with
and
without
hyphens
,
keep
a
list
and
check
it
regularly
.
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