Hyphen usage

it's world-famous

Hi Tjez, I think you'll find it's: World famous (No need for the hyphen)

Thanks, it was really starting to puzzle me.

Hi,

I'm confused about how to use a hyphen with words that end in "ly". For example, do you say summer friendly products, or summer-friendly products?

I would argue that "world famous" should be hyphenated when used as an adjective that is modifying a noun, as in:

He's a world-famous photographer.

The case for using a hyphen is perhaps weaker when it's a predicative complement:

That painting is world famous.

The hyphen in "summer-friendly products" is definitely required.

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I have a phrase with three elements: an adverb, an adjective, and a noun. Usually I would connect the adverb and the adjective with a hyphen. However, my adverb is two words. Should I put another hyphen between these two words? Can I follow a general rule?

language model-building process
OR
language-model-building process

My thought is that because "model build

I'd like to help, but I'm not sure I understand the meaning of your phrase.
Are you talking about "the process of building a language model"? Or is it something different?
Also, I can't find an adverb in that structure.

Would you clarify this a bit, please?

Thank you.

Miriam

Here's a related question. My tricky phrases are as follows.

"candidate gene based markers are being developed"
In this instance "candidate" and "gene" have equal weighting and I would normally hyphenate them, but "based" makes it a bit more confusing.


"X is helpful for linkage disequilibrium based marker-trait association detection"
Here, "linkage" and "disequi

Turns out that if a compound adjective consists of more than one word an en rule should be used to indicate the link. So it's:

candidate gene--based markers

linkage disequilibrium--based marker-trait association detection

Is anyone actually on this list?

Would you hyphenate six pack?