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Which sentence is correctly hyphenated?

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timurjin [86]2 years ago

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Red modifies tail, not pheasant because the hikers spotted a pheasant with a red tail, not a red pheasant with a tail. When "a noun + an adjective" becomes a compound adjective, you need to use a hyphen.

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