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Okay shmoop er's Next up two of eleven revolutionary dash

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era scenes What are we doing with this puppy All

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right let's go back to reading here real quick there's

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A semaphore revolutionary action scenes that the u s congress

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commission from underneath Okay so what's wrong with that Anything

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is the m dash right Should there be a comma

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in there doing okay What do you think What we're

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dealing with A compound adjective here That's key thing to

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know for these tests could always throw those at your

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head at ninety miles an hour You have to know

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when to duck So what's compound adjective well means it's

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a set of two words that function as one adjective

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tvo or title or just adjective unit revolutionary and era

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to show that these words function together to modify the

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noun scenes they need to be hyphenated They're functioning together

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You couldn't have revolutionary scenes that would be really weird

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like the scenes revolved round and round that be kind

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of cool for era scenes that could be like eighteenth

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nineteenth century rounding on whatever era they're talking about farmers

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and people dying of tuberculosis stuff like that that be

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era scenes being them together because it's the revolutionary era

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so we nail it in much more narrowly they shouldn't

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be hyphenated when they're not modifying a noun however so

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get rid of b when referring death scenes from the

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revolutionary era well there's No need to hyphenate the words

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revolutionary and era to show that they're working together as

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a unit What's More scenes from the revolutionary era even

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when correctly punctuated doesn't exactly help streamline the sentence Like

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if you're getting paid for word maybe you do this

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with compound adjectives The hyphen is necessary for clarity of

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the sentence without the hyphen While a reader might think

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the now not the adjective is compound that would leave

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us with era scenes that are themselves revolutionary in nature

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And yeah that would just be so wrong So that's 00:01:45.787 --> [endTime] no change

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