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Goronsky Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

A 75-to-90-cent-a-week deduction

Without rephrasing, are the hyphens correct throughout in these two examples? Please reply. A big thank-you. California Jim (and others), I'd love to know whether you concur with the punctuation in these lengthy compound modifiers exactly as they're written, yes or no?

• an 80-to-90-cent-a-week deduction from your paycheck

• a 20-to-30-percent-a-year increase in revenues

• a $90,000-to-$100,000-per-year joint income

• a $350-million-to-$400-million-a-year business empire

Thank you.
  

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goronsky Without rephrasing, are the hyphens correct throughout in these two examples? Please reply. A big thank-you.

— Anonymous

  • goronsky Without rephrasing, are the hyphens correct throughout in these two examples?
  • Please reply.
  • A big thank-you.
  • • an 80-to-90-cent-a-week deduction from your paycheck• a 20-to-30-percent-a-year increase in revenues• a $90,000-to-$100,000-per-year joint income• a $350-million-to-$400-million-a-year business empireThank you.
  • It seems to be OK.
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goronskyWithout rephrasing, are the hyphens correct throughout in these two examples? Please reply. A big thank-you. California Jim (and others), I'd love to know whether you concur with the punctuation in these lengthy compound modifiers exactly as they're written, yes or no?• an 80-to-90-cent-a-week deduction from your paycheck• a 20-to-30-percent-a-year increase in rev
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What's the "head of the NP" mean?
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goronskyWhat's the "head of the NP" mean?
NP - a noun phrase;
head - a headword, i.e. the main word which cannot be omitted from the phrase, whereas modifiers are optional.
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Anonymous goronskyWhat's the "head of the NP" mean?NP - a noun phrase;head - a headword, i.e. the main word which cannot be omitted from the phrase, whereas modifiers are optional.
Hey, Anonymous. You seem to have a pretty good command of what we're all about here. Why don't you consider registering with a user name and letting us get to know you better, and
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Thanks, Anonymous. Now shed your anonymity. ;-)
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As standalones (no ranges), are these correct, too, with all the hyphens? Again, no recasts, please.

• a 90-cent-a-week deduction
• a 30-percent-a-year increase
• a $100,000-per-year income
• a $400-million-a-year business empire
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Random callout to Aspara Gus. Do you concur, without rephrasing, with the way the examples are punctuated in my two posts?
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