gender-neutral

If the word is hyphenated, it stays hyphenated, no matter where in the sentence it occurs.

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I do not agree with our friend AlpheccaStars. It takes a hyphen before but no hyphen after. It is a gender-neutral plan. The plan is gender neutral. The hyphen before is an aid to the reader, who would otherwise read "It is a gender ..." and wrongly read "gender" as a noun. That confusion does not occur after.

Anonymous I do not agree with our friend AlpheccaStars. It takes a hyphen before but no hyphen after. It is a gender-neutral plan. The plan is gender neutral. The hyphen before is an aid to the reader, who would otherwise read "It is a gender ..." and wrongly read "gender" as a noun. That confusion does not occur after.

It really depends on the adjective and h

Sorry, I still disagree. "Twenty-five" isn't the kind of thing we are talking about. That is the kind of number that always takes a hyphen by spelling convention. And "warm-hearted" is not bound. The rule for two-word adjectives is hyphenate before but not after, except when the first word is an adverb in "-ly", in which case never hyphenate.

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When we use a longer phrase as an adjective before a noun, we often use hyphens. Compare

an out-of-work miner
He's out of work.
a shoot-to-kill policy
They were ordered to shoot to kill.

IvanhrHi guysFrom SwanWhen we use a longer phrase as an adjective before a noun, we often use hyphens. Comparean out-of-work minerHe's out of work.a shoot-to-kill policyThey were ordered to shoot to kill.

That's correct for a prepositional phrase, or an infinitive phrase which are not by themselves, a modifier.

out of work = prepositional phrase