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Choose whether the following is true or false:
'I live in an English-speaking country.'
In the quoted sentence, 'English-speaking' is an adjective and we use a hyphen to connect the word English with speaking to show that it is one adjective.
  1. True
  2. False

A
False
B
True
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The correct option is A True
A compound adjective is formed when two or more words are joined together to form an adjective to modify the same noun. They are joined with a hyphen (-). In the given sentence, English and speaking are two separate words joined with a hyphen to form a single adjective 'English-speaking'. Thus, option A is the correct answer.

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