Hyphenate noun-plus-gerund compound modifiers

Submitted by György Chityil ... on Fri, 12/14/2012 - 15:51

Language English

Hierarchy:

Part:

Sentence

Scope:

Chunk

Features:

previous.is_article && current.is_noun && next.is_gerund

Suggestion:

current.text + "-" + next.text

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Description:

Noun-plus-participle compounds are hyphenated (for example, "time-consuming activity", "an activity that is time-consuming").

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