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moonlike

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Hi
Could you kindly help? Here in this sentence "He has a slight balding appearance, with amazing dark eyebrows"
Why shouldn't we have slightly, because we use it as a modifier to modify balding. Why slight balding not slightly balding?
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"He has a slight (meaning 3) balding appearance, with amazing dark eyebrows"

It needs a comma after 'slight'.
 

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