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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Hyphen usage

What is the most correctly used way to make the following statement?
#1 "The car is gray in color."
or
#2 "The car is gray-in-color."
  

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" The car is gray .

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#1 "The car is gray in color."
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#2 "The car is gray-in-color."

The car is gray.
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Okay, I attempted to give a shortened version of the sentence, here is a better example.
#1 "The car was identified as a white in color Ford Explorer bearing Maine License plate #***-000."
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#2 "The car was identified as a white-in-color Ford Explorer bearing Maine License plate #***-000."
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#1 a white in color Ford Explorer
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#2 as a white-in-color Ford Explorer

a white Ford Explorer
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Thanks for the assistance.
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