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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Asking partial post again; mostly hyphen-related

Hi. I posted a rather long and not-so-well-organized post a few days ago and this time, I have shortened the question/questions. Please help.

Are these correct?

1.Pop art-influenced images are on the wall. -- properly hyphenated?

2.He talks on the issue of over *** years of Chinese living in ***. -- can the underlined OK as what follows the word "of"?

3.Kids in grades Kindergarden-6th are welcome to join.

4.Please bring your 3-6 year olds to our fun club.
  

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1. I did a search for "pop art influenced" to see how it was hyphenated and I saw all different ways! "pop-art influenced", " pop art-influenced ", "pop-art-influenced" !

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  • I did a search for "pop art influenced" to see how it was hyphenated and I saw all different ways!
  • "pop-art influenced", " pop art-influenced ", "pop-art-influenced" !
  • But I'm going to go ahead and say yours is correct because in this NY Times article that's how it's hyphenated.
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1. I did a search for "pop art influenced" to see how it was hyphenated and I saw all different ways! "pop-art influenced", "pop art-influenced", "pop-art-influenced" ! But I'm going to go ahead and say yours is correct because in this NY Times article that's how it's hyphenated.
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Your #3 is not a hyphen; it's an en-dash. No space.

I tried to copy something from the Online Writing Lab (the OWL) at Purdue, one of my favorite sources, but I'm having some trouble with the formatting:

• En dash (–):

• To indicate a range of values, such as those between dates, times, or numbers:

• June – July 1967

• 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

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