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Hyphenating "blue and white micro stripe Armani dress shirt."
What's the correct way to hyphenate the below sentence: Still fit at thirty three, his health club chest neatly filled out a blue and white micro stripe Armani dress shirt.
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" This sentence needs to be rewritten to make it grammatical. As it stands, it says that "his" chest is both 33 years old and still fit, not that "he" is 33 years old and still fit. I don't think you want to say that.
- " This sentence needs to be rewritten to make it grammatical.
- As it stands, it says that "his" chest is both 33 years old and still fit, not that "he" is 33 years old and still fit.
- I don't think you want to say that.
- Semantically, too, it is a bit strange.
- Thirty-three is not old (unless you are 16 or so and think anyone over 30 is over the hill as well), so the introductory phrase doesn't work for me.
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on 28 Dec 2003:
[nq:1]What's the correct way to hyphenate the below sentence: Still fit at thirty three, his health club chest neatly filled out a blue and white micro stripe Armani dress shirt.[/nq]
*"Still fit at thirty-three, his health-club chest neatly filled out a blue and white micro-stripe Armani dress shirt."
This sentence needs to be rewritten to make it grammatical. As
[nq:1]What's the correct way to hyphenate the below sentence: Still fit at thirty three, his health club chest neatly filled out a blue and white micro stripe Armani dress shirt.[/nq]
*"Still fit at thirty-three, his health-club chest neatly filled out a blue and white micro-stripe Armani dress shirt."
This sentence needs to be rewritten to make it grammatical. As
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