Guest guest Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 or, well educated persons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolo_hare_krsna Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 or, well educated persons? pamho, agtsp , maharaja. i humbly submit, it is well-educated persons. thank you hare krsna your servant arjuna dasa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avinash Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 The correct form is 'well-educated persons'. Here the words well and educated together constitute a single compound adjective. If two or more words make a single compound adjective and are followed by the noun that the compound adjective modifies, then you should put hyphen between the words. The compound adjective 'well-educated' modifies the noun 'persons' and the adjective is followed by the noun that it modifies, therefore there is hyphen between 'well' and 'educated'. However consider the sentence:- These persons are well educated. There is no hyphen because the compound adjective is not followed by the noun it modifies. The noun being modified is 'persons' but it precedes and not follows the adjective, hence no hyphen. Even when the compound adjective is followed by the noun it modifies, then also there is one case in which we do not put hyphen. The case is when out of the two words that form a compound adjective, the first one ends in the suffix 'ly'. Example:- They are happily married couple. The word 'happily' ends in 'ly' and therefore there is no hyphen in the compound adjective 'happily married'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2006 Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 At 08:28 PM 12/13/2006 -0500, Bhakti Vikasa Swami wrote: >or, well educated persons? > more context needed: "I saw some very well educated persons.I saw some well-educated persons." See WIT p. 235. dd >-- > > >Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.18/586 - Release >12/13/2006 6:13 PM > > > > >-- > > >Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.18/586 - Release >12/13/2006 6:13 PM -- Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.23/591 - Release 12/17/2006 3:17 PM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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