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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
hyphenate or do not hyphenate
Hi,
I was looking at the Toyota 4Runner brochure for the year 2000 and seem to have found these phrases (string of words?):
Some phrases found in its Stanard Features columns:
Power window with driver and front passager auto up/down and pinch protection
Color-coordinated front and rear bumpers, fender flares, door cladding and running boars (color-keyed standard with Millennium Silver, available with Imperial Jade Mica)
Color-keyed heated power outside mirrors
Two front and one rear 12-volt auxiliary power outlets
How could one go about hyphenated any of these words if they need to be?
If I hypheanted and changed the first one like this, would it be wrong?
Power window with driver-and-front passanger auto-up-and-down-and-pinch protection
I was looking at the Toyota 4Runner brochure for the year 2000 and seem to have found these phrases (string of words?):
Some phrases found in its Stanard Features columns:
Power window with driver and front passager auto up/down and pinch protection
Color-coordinated front and rear bumpers, fender flares, door cladding and running boars (color-keyed standard with Millennium Silver, available with Imperial Jade Mica)
Color-keyed heated power outside mirrors
Two front and one rear 12-volt auxiliary power outlets
How could one go about hyphenated any of these words if they need to be?
If I hypheanted and changed the first one like this, would it be wrong?
Power window with driver-and-front passanger auto-up-and-down-and-pinch protection
Top answer
Hi, When to hyphenate can sometimes be a bit tricky, but here are a couple of very general comments to consider. I don't think people today hyphenate as much as they used to. When you see a phrase with two or more hyphens, look carefully because it is likely to be unnatural.
- Hi, When to hyphenate can sometimes be a bit tricky, but here are a couple of very general comments to consider.
- I don't think people today hyphenate as much as they used to.
- When you see a phrase with two or more hyphens, look carefully because it is likely to be unnatural.
- Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,
When to hyphenate can sometimes be a bit tricky, but here are a couple of very general comments to consider.
I don't think people today hyphenate as much as they used to.
When you see a phrase with two or more hyphens, look carefully because it is likely to be unnatural.
Best wishes, Clive
When to hyphenate can sometimes be a bit tricky, but here are a couple of very general comments to consider.
I don't think people today hyphenate as much as they used to.
When you see a phrase with two or more hyphens, look carefully because it is likely to be unnatural.
Best wishes, Clive
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Thank you.
Can anyone with an eager heart to learn possibly get a grip on "how-to's" of the "tricks," as you seemed to have referred to? How can they go about taking the first step?
What should one do if they find themselves in the position of having to write something like ones noted previously? One hyphen in a phrase -- as you seemed to have recommended, then what? Should a
Can anyone with an eager heart to learn possibly get a grip on "how-to's" of the "tricks," as you seemed to have referred to? How can they go about taking the first step?
What should one do if they find themselves in the position of having to write something like ones noted previously? One hyphen in a phrase -- as you seemed to have recommended, then what? Should a
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Hi,
Would you like to write a few sentences of this type, and post them here for comments?
Best wishes, Clive
Would you like to write a few sentences of this type, and post them here for comments?
Best wishes, Clive
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Thank you. I will tackle what looks to be easy ones from the first-post examples:
All my efforts seem to have two or more hyphens.
1.Color-coordinated front and rear bumpers, fender flares, door cladding and running boars (color-keyed standard with Millennium Silver, available with Imperial Jade Mica)
For the first part of this, I would write it as: Color-coodinated,
All my efforts seem to have two or more hyphens.
1.Color-coordinated front and rear bumpers, fender flares, door cladding and running boars (color-keyed standard with Millennium Silver, available with Imperial Jade Mica)
For the first part of this, I would write it as: Color-coodinated,
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Hi,
All my efforts seem to have two or more hyphens. These are OK. I didn't mean that you wouldn't normally have two or more hyphens in a sentence, I meant in one hyphenated 'word', eg 'left-hand drive' is OK, but 'left-hand-drive doesn't seem so natural.
1.Color-coordinated front and rear bumpers, fender flares, door cladding and running boars (color-key
All my efforts seem to have two or more hyphens. These are OK. I didn't mean that you wouldn't normally have two or more hyphens in a sentence, I meant in one hyphenated 'word', eg 'left-hand drive' is OK, but 'left-hand-drive doesn't seem so natural.
1.Color-coordinated front and rear bumpers, fender flares, door cladding and running boars (color-key
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