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Reason #8,409: Your yard is on fire.

See, that’s what the hyphen there does. It indicates that the adjective ‘burning’ modifies ‘yard’, as the two are connected. If there wasn’t a hyphen there, ‘burning’ would modify ‘trainer’. So the trainer would be on fire in that case. Neither of these scenarios makes a lot of sense to me. But if your yard …