{"id":258,"date":"2019-07-25T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T12:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2019-07-25T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T12:42:33","slug":"hyphenated-adjectives-10-minute-english-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/25\/hyphenated-adjectives-10-minute-english-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyphenated Adjectives &#8211; 10 Minute English Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We can form\nhyphenated phrases that are placed before nouns to say more precisely what the\nnoun refers to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>a state-of-the-art (= very modern) laboratory<\/li><li>day-to-day (= regular) life<\/li><li>a head-in-the-sand attitude (= refusing to think about unpleasant facts)<\/li><li>a four-wheel-drive vehicle (= one in which the engine provides power to all four wheels so that it can go over rough ground smoothly)<\/li><li>a security-card-operated door<ul><li>Politicians generally make a lot of <em>pie-in-the-sky<\/em> (= an event that somebody talks about seems very unlikely to happen) promises and never go back on their words.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>She was expected to do much better, but gave a very <em>run-of-the-mill<\/em> (= ordinary, with no special or interesting features, often disapproving) performance. And guess what then? The critics expressed their disapproval in their reports the following day.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>We all were planning to go to Mount Abu, but then changed our mind because we wanted many <em>out-of-the-way<\/em> (= far from a town or city) places that few tourists had visited before.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Stuart is <em>good-for-nothing<\/em> (= lazy and without skills) in our team and a deadweight. He drags the performance of the entire team.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>I remember his dire strait. He was almost broke and lived a <em>hand-to-mouth<\/em> (= to spend all the money that you earn on basic needs such as food without being able to save any money) existence, surviving on just a few dollars a week.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li><em>Behind-the-scenes<\/em> (= in a way that people, in general, are not aware of) negotiations took place between the two countries in vain.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>She listened to them patiently and spoke in a <em>matter-of-fact<\/em> (= used to disagree with something that somebody has just said, actually) way about the verbal attack.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>The <em>one-size-fits-all<\/em> policy does not work well for all corporations. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can form hyphenated phrases that are placed before nouns to say more precisely what the noun refers to: a state-of-the-art (= very modern) laboratory day-to-day (= regular) life a head-in-the-sand attitude (= refusing to think about unpleasant facts) a four-wheel-drive vehicle (= one in which the engine provides power to all four wheels so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}