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The Man-Eating Shark

Hyphens that stop the reader reading it wrong

Lesson 16
Spicy
Name
Date
Chef Polpetta

Glue the pair that shares one job before the noun, and never glue an -ly word. Read both ways, always.

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Tick the right one

aa man-eating shark, the shark eats peoplea man-eating shark, a man is eating some shark
bTwenty odd chefs applied, roughly twenty chefsTwenty odd chefs applied, twenty strange people
cre-cover the sofa, get the sofa backre-cover the sofa, cover the sofa again
da little-used car, hardly drivena little-used car, a small second-hand car
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Find the 6 mistakes

Polpetta wrote the specials board in his best chalk, showing off a little. Our well known chef cooks every dish daily, and his freshly-baked bread arrives at dawn. Try the last minute deal after nine o'clock. The man eating shark on the aquarium poster scared Leo half to death, and twenty odd customers asked about it before opening. The old sofa in the corner needs someone to recover it because the cat has shredded the fabric. Our little-used back room seats ten more.
Read every pair both ways. Some need glue, one has glue it should not have, and one is already right.
Write the corrections here
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The Man-Eating Shark

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Name
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Now you write

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a One pair, two sentences, two meanings, hyphen in one, not the other, both explained:
b A sentence with a glued pair before the noun and the same words loose after it:
c Your own invented meaning-flipper, both versions, and which the café should print:
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Help Polpetta

Chef Polpetta

I glued everything to be safe, Our well-known chef re-covered quickly after his freshly-cooked lunch. All hyphenated, all correct, no?

Tell him which two glues must come off, which one changed his meaning, and why safe is not a hyphen rule.
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