This is correct, and without the hyphens it reads like a garden-path sentence[1], which is one with an ambiguous structure that normal readers tend to parse inc

This is correct, and without the hyphens it reads like a garden-path sentence[1], which is one with an ambiguous structure that normal readers tend to parse incorrectly. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence