Asked by Makayla

Select the correct sentence.

Jerry's beat-up looking Ford has a custom built engine.
Jerry's beat-up-looking Ford has a custom-built engine.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The second sentence is correct:

"Jerry's beat-up-looking Ford has a custom-built engine."

Reason: compound modifiers that precede a noun are hyphenated — "beat-up-looking" modifies Ford, and "custom-built" modifies engine. (For clarity, you could also write "Jerry's beat-up Ford has a custom-built engine.")