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Goronsky Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Disambiguation
1. Joe said, "It was a $10- to $12-million-a-year industry."
2. Joe said, "There will be a $10- to $12-a-week fee involved."
Does the insertion of the hyphen after $10- (in each) clearly show its connection to what follows? In other words, in sentence 1, the suspended "$10-" is an abbreviated form of "10 million." In the second example, the "$10-" means "ten-dollar."
Thank you.
2. Joe said, "There will be a $10- to $12-a-week fee involved."
Does the insertion of the hyphen after $10- (in each) clearly show its connection to what follows? In other words, in sentence 1, the suspended "$10-" is an abbreviated form of "10 million." In the second example, the "$10-" means "ten-dollar."
Thank you.
Top answer
Yes, there's no ambiguity there whatsoever.
- Yes, there's no ambiguity there whatsoever.
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