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Add hyphens to compound adjectives where necessary. If no hyphens are needed, submit the text without making any changes.

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Spring brought warmer days, blossoming trees, and the long awaited farmers' market, which featured seasonal produce: asparagus, strawberries, and peas.

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Final answer:

The provided sentence 'Spring brought warmer days, blossoming trees, and the long awaited farmers' market...' requires a hyphen in 'long-awaited' to form a compound adjective.

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence provided needs hyphens added to create compound adjectives where necessary. Compound adjectives consist of two or more words that come before a noun and act as a single idea to modify the noun. You add hyphens between these words to clarify their combined meaning.

The corrected sentence is: 'Spring brought warmer days, blossoming trees, and the long-awaited farmers' market, which featured seasonal produce: asparagus, strawberries, and peas.''Long-awaited' is a compound adjective modifying the noun 'farmers' market' and thus needs a hyphen.

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