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RealLife English: Learn and Speak Confident, Natural English

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How to Pronounce a Solo Woman

When you hyphenate the word one and woman, you're basically creating a compound adjective. So now we have a whole new word that means a solo woman - like a woman on her own performing to a crowd or to an audience. Another example I can think of is a baby who is two years old could also be referred to as a two year old baby. Even though I have three words here all hyphenated, it's like I'm treating them as one word. That's what a compound adjective does.

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