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Which sentence does not follow the rules of hyphenation?

A. The conspicuously neat room looked uninhabited.
B. Look for regionally-grown produce at your local grocery vendor.
C. The afternoon's first-prize-winning contestant was elated.
D. The first-place winner stepped into the spotlight.

User AJFarkas
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Answer:

A. The conspicuously neat room looked uninhabited.

Step-by-step explanation:

There needs to be a hyphen between the words 'conspicuously' and 'neat.'

All multi-word adjectives need to be hyphenated when preceding the nouns they describe.

User JercSi
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Answer: ahh I got it wrong that’s what I got

B

Step-by-step explanation:

Which sentence does not follow the rules of hyphenation? A. The conspicuously neat-example-1
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