"late arriving" or "late-arriving?"

Subject: "late arriving" or "late-arriving?"
From: "Trese, Timothy G." <Timothy -dot- G -dot- Trese -at- SAICSeals -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:17:03 -0500


There's a common English construction of an adverb modify a participle
before a noun, e.g.:

late arriving workers
rapidly flashing light
normally opened valve
rudely interrupted nap

Is it correct to hyphenate these to:

late-arriving workers
rapidly-flashing light
normally-opened valve
rudely-interrupted nap

The latter looks better to me, but are there any prescriptive
grammarians out there willing to lay down the gospel? Brothers and
sisters, lemme hear you TESTIFY!

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