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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Clear the ambiguities

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00There was a post that was put up to explain the rules for hyphens and in it, it had a section called "To Avoid Ambiguities." In the section, it listed many words with hyphens that I presumed are the examples of words that used the hyphens to avoid being ambiguous.02br
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00a little-used car02br
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00a little used-car02br
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00cross complaint02br
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00cross-complaint02br
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00high-school girl02br
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00high schoolgirl02br
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00fine-tooth comb00 (most people do not comb their teeth.)02br
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00My request to you is help me to get my teeth into the things it is talking about. If it is too much of work, just use two sets of those listed. 02br
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00Oh, another thing, which one is right? 02br
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01i00If it is too much of work, ... or02i02br
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01i00If it is too much work, ... 02i0-
  

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