Add your answer. What percentage of the earthâs surface is covered by oceans and marginal seas? What percentage of the earthâs surface is covered by oceans and marginal seas? Area of oceans and marginal seas X 100 = ________________% oceans. Area of Earth. What percentage of the earthâs surface is land?
A phrasal adjective (also known as an adjective phrase or compound adjective) is a phrase that modifies a noun.hrasal adjective hyphenation. When a phrasal adjective precedes a noun, it usually takes a hyphen or, for phrases of three or more words, hyphens. This makes things easier for your reader and helps prevent miscuesâfor example: razor-sharp wit.
1 When the resulting word is not perceived to be a real word, a hyphen is used before the suffix (sandcastle â sandcastle-y). 2  A few long-established words ending with this suffix have distinctive spellings, such as wintry and fiery, which English learners might misspell as *wintery and *firey.