easily fooled

[navi tasan]

Are these sentences correct:

1-He is dealing with an easily fooled public.
2-I have the recipe for a rapidly made dish.
3-I have the recipe for a rapidly baked cake.

Doesn't one need a hyphen between the adverb and the past participle?

Gratefully,
Navi.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I guess "the" should be used instead of "an" before "easily fooled public".
I usually do not add a hyphen.

Not a teacher.

 

[bhaisahab]

Are these sentences correct:

1-He is dealing with an easily fooled public.
2-I have the recipe for a rapidly made dish.
3-I have the recipe for a rapidly baked cake.

Doesn't one need a hyphen between the adverb and the past participle?

Gratefully,
Navi.

#1 is fine. I don't find 2 and 3 very natural, though.

 

[Matthew Wai]

1-He is dealing with an easily fooled public.

#1 is fine.

In my dictionaries, "the" is used before "public", why can an indefinite article be used in sentence #1?

 

[Rover_KE]

It refers to a section of the public which is easily fooled — not all the public.

 

[Matthew Wai]

Then should "an" be used instead of "the" before "underprivileged public"?

Why do the moderators sometimes post two identical answers simultaneously?

 

[5jj]

Then should "an" be used instead of "the" before "underprivileged public"?

Yes. The article comes before the vowel 'u'.

Why do the moderators sometimes post two identical answers simultaneously?

Occasionally the system produces duplicate posts. It's nothing to do with moderators deliberately doing it.

 

[Matthew Wai]

No. The article comes before the vowel 'u'.

The article before the vowel "u" should be "an", why did you say no?

 

[5jj]

Sorry. I misread your post. I have now corrected mine.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Are these sentences correct:

1-He is dealing with an easily fooled public.
2-I have the recipe for a rapidly made dish.
3-I have the recipe for a rapidly baked cake.

Doesn't one need a hyphen between the adverb and the past participle?

Gratefully,
Navi.

As a rule, we do not hyphenate an adverb ending in -ly and an adjective before a noun.

 

[Matthew Wai]

1-He is dealing with an easily fooled public.

It refers to a section of the public which is easily fooled — not all the public.

public - definition of public by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
There are examples: "the reading public", "the racing public" and "the book-buying public".
They all refer to a section of the public, but "the" is used. Is "the" also correct?

 

[Barb_D]

Matthew, please start a new thread with your questions about "the" and "a" for public.

This is completely unrelated to the initial question by the original poster and is called "hijacking" the thread.