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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 249695" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>Even if you leave out the hyphen, the "well" or "good" doesn't modify "job"; it modifies "paying" in which case I think it should still be an adjective. I could diagram the sentence but don't know how to show it here. I still think they're wrong.</p><p>"The company" is the subject</p><p>"will create: is the verb</p><p>"jobs" is the direct object</p><p>"good-paying" or "well-paying" modifies jobs, not paying so it has to agree with the object.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 249695, member: 135"] Even if you leave out the hyphen, the "well" or "good" doesn't modify "job"; it modifies "paying" in which case I think it should still be an adjective. I could diagram the sentence but don't know how to show it here. I still think they're wrong. "The company" is the subject "will create: is the verb "jobs" is the direct object "good-paying" or "well-paying" modifies jobs, not paying so it has to agree with the object. [/QUOTE]
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