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Goronsky Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
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In the following, does the dollar sign in front of '10' and '65' suffice? I don't think we need to repeat it before '20.' The dollar sign before '10,' in conjunction with the hyphen, serves as a suspended symbol. That said, and without a recast, do you support the four examples below?
a $10-to-20-million-a-year industry
a $65-to-70,000-a-year joint income
a $10-million-to-20-million-a-year industry
a $65,000-to-70,000-a-year joint income
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a $10-to-20-million-a-year industry
a $65-to-70,000-a-year joint income
a $10-million-to-20-million-a-year industry
a $65,000-to-70,000-a-year joint income
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I'd repeat the dollar sign.
- I'd repeat the dollar sign.
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Thanks. And you don't think the first 2 options could be misread as "a ten-dollar-to-twenty-million-dollar-a-year industry" and "a sixty-five-dollar-to-seventy-thousand-dollar-a-year joint income," do you? It's highly unlikely that a reader would misconstrue those, right?
a $10-to-$20-million-a-year industry
a $65-to-$70,000-a-year joint income
a $10-to-$20-million-a-year industry
a $65-to-$70,000-a-year joint income
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goronskyIt's highly unlikely that a reader would misconstrue those, right?I agree.
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goronskya $10-to-$20-million-a-year industrya $65-to-$70,000-a-year joint incomeIt's a bit ambiguous.
I'd write it like that:
a $10m-to-$20m a year industry
a $65K-to-$70K a year joint-income
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That doesn't work... all compound modifiers are linked with hyphens.
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