Question

Use the sentence to answer the question. Millie might not be able to attend the play tonight because she still has to find someone to watch her two year old daughter for the night. Which version of the sentence corrects the error in the compound adjective?

Millie might not be able to attend the play tonight because she still has to find someone to watch her two year old-daughter for the night. Millie might not be able to attend the play to-night because she still has to find someone to watch her two year old daughter for the night. Millie might-not be able to attend the play tonight because she still has to find someone to watch her two year old daughter for the night. Millie might not be able to attend the play tonight because she still has to find someone to watch her two-year-old daughter for the night.

Answer 1

Millie might not be able to attend the play tonight because she still has to find someone to watch her two-year-old daughter for the night.

Step-by-step explanation:

A compound adjective is a type of adjective where there is more than one adjective that is combined to modify a noun. The adjectives are always hyphenated.

Option D is the correct answer because it corrects the error of not hyphenating the compound adjective "two year old daughter"