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The poor plague ridden residential areas of the town were shut off from the rest of the world.

Edit the above sentence and include the correct use of hyphens.

A:The poor-plague-ridden-residential areas of the town were shut-off from the rest of the world.

B:The poor, plague-ridden, residential areas of the town were shut off from the rest of the world.

C:The poor, plague, ridden, residential areas of the town were shut-off from the rest of the world.

D:The poor-plague, ridden-residential areas of the town were shut off from the rest of the world.

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I think the correct answer would be:
B: The poor, plague-ridden, residential areas of the town were shut off from the rest of the world.
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Answer: B.

The poor, plague-ridden, residential areas of the town were shut off from the rest of the world.

The words poor, plague-ridden and residential are adjectives, and it is correct to separate them with commas. -ridden (means full of something unpleasant or bad) is a suffix used to form adjectives; in this case, with the noun plague it forms the adjective plague-ridden. Shut off is phrasal verb and doesn't need hyphen.

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