HYPHENS IN Half-pack-a-day
Posted By: A on 2009-02-05
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Half-pack-a-day ? Does it have hyphens??
and Half-pack-per-day ? Does it??? Thank you!
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half tablet
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hyphens
Subject: hyphens
And, when I first started out so many years ago our motto was "when in doubt hyphenate" and it was so long ago it had to be incorrect.
hyphens
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We were told not to use hyphens with African-American, Latin-American, etc. any longer.
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African-American, 32-year-old, bright-red-blood, any hard and fast rules on these?
Hyphens
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It's a simple rule of English concerning compound adjectives. From The New St. Martin's Handbook (of English usage), "Often you will use adjectives made up of word combinations that are not listed in the dictationary. The guiding principle then is to hyphenate most compound adjectives that precede a noun but not those that follow a noun." Thus "5-French catheter" but "upsized to 5 French."
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Thanks, but I thought "post" in the medical realm is a prefix and should be attached with a hyphen I guess.
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Thank. This helps a lot :)
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