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Hyphenation

0 "Of course, if you are truly an every day low price dealer like Staples, the focus on price is a valid tactic." 02br
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00Kindly advise whether i can hyphenate the sentence ..."an every day-low price-dealer like Staples,"... 02br
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0 I think you can, but not like you did it. 02br 00A more correct version - in my opinion - would be 'an every-day low-price dealer like Staples'. 02br 00At least, I think you mean to say that it's about a dealer who's a dealer every day and deals in low prices?

— Vince

  • 0 I think you can, but not like you did it.
  • 02br 00A more correct version - in my opinion - would be 'an every-day low-price dealer like Staples'.
  • 02br 00At least, I think you mean to say that it's about a dealer who's a dealer every day and deals in low prices?
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0 I think you can, but not like you did it. 02br
00A more correct version - in my opinion - would be 'an every-day low-price dealer like Staples'. 02br
00At least, I think you mean to say that it's about a dealer who's a dealer every day and deals in low prices? 0-
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0 Or you can make 'every day' one word: '...everyday low-price...'. 02br
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0 Is the adjective 'everyday' really correct as 'every-day'? I didn't think it was. 02br
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0 Now you mention it, CJ, no, I don't think it is. I think it would have to be 'everyday'. 02br
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00MrP 0-
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0If I may leap in here with hobnailed boots: 02br
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00'Everyday', the one-word adjective, is usually taken to mean 'quotidian, ordinary', but I think the adman rather wishes to express the fact that his low prices apply each and every day-- an extraordinary situation! 02br
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00So, since we are making an adjective of it, and the adjectives here are le
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0 '...every-day-low-price dealer'? 02br
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