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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Hyphens

Is it all-too-familiar OR all too familiar?
  

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If to comes before a noun, use the hyphens. An all-too-familiar story. If there is no noun, then there is no hyphen: The story was all too familiar.

— BarbaraPA

  • If to comes before a noun, use the hyphens.
  • An all-too-familiar story.
  • If there is no noun, then there is no hyphen: The story was all too familiar.
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If to comes before a noun, use the hyphens.

An all-too-familiar story.

If there is no noun, then there is no hyphen: The story was all too familiar.
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