Question

State whether true or false:
We cannot form a compound adjective by joining an adjective and a present participle with a hyphen.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is B False

We can form a compound adjective by joining an adjective and a present participle with a hyphen. E.g. There are many beautiful-looking flowers in the garden. Here, beautiful is an adjective and looking is a present participle. The present participle is formed with verb + ing. Thus, the given statement is false hence option B is the correct answer.