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Nanook Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

hyphenation -- noun noun participle

Which is correct, speaking of a type of event?


1. Climate change related event

2. Climate change-related event

3. Climate-change related event

4. Climate-change-related event
  

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c limate-change-related is the compound modifier here. My answer is #4.

  • c limate-change-related is the compound modifier here.
  • My answer is #4.
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climate-change-related is the compound modifier here.
My answer is #4.
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Inchoateknowledgeclimate-change-related is the compound modifier here.
My answer is #4.

Mine, too.
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Mine too. However, this is a double post, and in the other post, the response was different.

The triple word, double hyphenation can be clumsy, but I think it's still the most accurate.
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NanookWhich is correct, speaking of a type of event?


1. Climate change related event

2. Climate change-related event

3. Climate-change related event

4. Climate-change-related event
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I think I have better examples

expert system oriented fixture design methods

expert system oriented module

Where are the hyphens hidden?
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Pardon me! You completely lost me!
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Write it this way: expert system-oriented fixture design models
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Aperisic
I think I have better examples

expert system oriented fixture design methods

expert system oriented module

Where are the hyphens hidden?

I'll quote myself here. In these two examples there are together exactly three hyphens. Both have at least one hyphen.

expert system
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Both phrases are obvioulsy part of the jargon of some branch of science. Those who are not up on this jargon can't guess which ones are linked.

Is it "system-orientened" or "system-oriented-fixture"? We wouldn't know. It's up to the author to help us understand how they link by included the hyphens. But with a string like this, it's still going to be hard for people not in this branch of
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Grammar Geek
Both phrases are obvioulsy part of the jargon of some branch of science. Those who are not up on this jargon can't guess which ones are linked.

Is it "system-orientened" or "system-oriented-fixture"? We wouldn't know. It's up to the author to help us understand how they link by included the hyphens. But with a string like this, it's still going t

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