Como usar Compound Adjectives em inglês
Gostaria de saber se há alguma regra específica para quando devo usar numeral+adjective+ED e quando devo usar a mesma fórmula sem o ED em Compound Adjectives.
Por exemplo:
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Por exemplo:
- a one-armed man
- a three-legged puppy
- a sixty-page book
- a two-day trip
- a three-hundred-passanger cruise
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Compound Adjectives
A compound adjective is an adjective which is made up of two parts and is usually written with a hyphen, e.g. Well-dressed, never-ending and shocking-pink. Its meaning is usually clear from the words it combines. The second part of the compound adjective is frequently a present or past participle.
A large number of compound adjectives used to describe personal appearance or character normally consist of the following patterns:
The first part of the adjective indicates the amount (e.g. Three) and the second indicates the unit (e.g. Pound, mile), which is always in the singular. E.g.
Compound Adjectives
A compound adjective is an adjective which is made up of two parts and is usually written with a hyphen, e.g. Well-dressed, never-ending and shocking-pink. Its meaning is usually clear from the words it combines. The second part of the compound adjective is frequently a present or past participle.
A large number of compound adjectives used to describe personal appearance or character normally consist of the following patterns:
- Adjective or Number + Noun-ed
- Adjective + Present Participle
- Adjective or Adverb + Past Participle
- David proved to be a two-faced hypocrite.
- She is a blonde, blue-eyed girl.
- Your colleague is a very good-looking man.
- Lizzie is a well-behaved little girl.
The first part of the adjective indicates the amount (e.g. Three) and the second indicates the unit (e.g. Pound, mile), which is always in the singular. E.g.
- A five-mile walk; a six-foot man; a four-hour movie.
- Noun + Past Participle e.g. A home-made cake
- Noun + Adjective e.g. A trouble-free car
- Adjective + Noun e.g. Present-day America
- Noun + Present Participle e.g. A mouth-watering aroma