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Andrei Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Hyphens
The intimate and beautiful new album from Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy, marks a surprising change of direction. He tells Andrew Perry what happened
He's not hard to pick out among the early-evening diners at the appointed Greek taverna. He's not sporting the same black-and-white striped woolly hat that he wore around the time of his Mercury award-winning The Hour of Bewilderbeast album, the one in which his head resembled a large Everton mint. Rather, it's a red number in three shades, but, on this hot night in a busy restaurant, Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy, is the only one wearing any headgear at all.
He stands and welcomes me heartily, introducing his mum and dad, and the three lads from his backing band, with whom he'll soon be playing a short set at nearby Liverpool University.
I only want to know the reasons for hyphenations of the following in the above.
early-evening diners
black-and-white striped
He's not hard to pick out among the early-evening diners at the appointed Greek taverna. He's not sporting the same black-and-white striped woolly hat that he wore around the time of his Mercury award-winning The Hour of Bewilderbeast album, the one in which his head resembled a large Everton mint. Rather, it's a red number in three shades, but, on this hot night in a busy restaurant, Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy, is the only one wearing any headgear at all.
He stands and welcomes me heartily, introducing his mum and dad, and the three lads from his backing band, with whom he'll soon be playing a short set at nearby Liverpool University.
I only want to know the reasons for hyphenations of the following in the above.
early-evening diners
black-and-white striped
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Hello, Andrei You asked a similar quesrion about two weeks ago. I hope the explanations posted to that thread will help you with your new question. PostID=32622 Anyway, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record because this has already been said, you use a hyphen to make a 'compound' word in the cases you mention mainly in order to avoid cunfusion or ambiguity.
- Hello, Andrei You asked a similar quesrion about two weeks ago.
- I hope the explanations posted to that thread will help you with your new question.
- PostID=32622 Anyway, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record because this has already been said, you use a hyphen to make a 'compound' word in the cases you mention mainly in order to avoid cunfusion or ambiguity.
- "early-evening diners" are people who have dinner early in the evening.
- "Early-evening" is hyphenated because that's one way of showing that "early" modifies "evening".
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Hello, Andrei 
You asked a similar quesrion about two weeks ago. I hope the explanations posted to that thread will help yo
You asked a similar quesrion about two weeks ago. I hope the explanations posted to that thread will help yo
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