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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
LONG HYPHENATED NOUN
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I think I have asked a question similar to this some time ago but have this question. Can you help?
She has this I-am-good-and-I-know-it attitude.
I have the tendency to put a content that is a clause or that resembles one inside quotation marks and leave what seems like a non-clause to be hyphenated. Is that incorrect?
He seems to hate to receive those trite and mundane "how are you?" greetings everyday from students.
Likewise, I would have put the hyphenated adjective, I-am-good-and-I-know-it, in quotes.
What determines whether a situation is one that should be hyphenated or put in quotes in situations similar to ones I gave?
I think I have asked a question similar to this some time ago but have this question. Can you help?
She has this I-am-good-and-I-know-it attitude.
I have the tendency to put a content that is a clause or that resembles one inside quotation marks and leave what seems like a non-clause to be hyphenated. Is that incorrect?
He seems to hate to receive those trite and mundane "how are you?" greetings everyday from students.
Likewise, I would have put the hyphenated adjective, I-am-good-and-I-know-it, in quotes.
What determines whether a situation is one that should be hyphenated or put in quotes in situations similar to ones I gave?
Top answer
Length .
- Length .
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Thank you. So, I think you are saying the length is the determining factor, not whether is a clause or non-clause. Right? I think Clive said something like if the content is more than 2 or 3 words (I don't know exactly that means in practical term), put it in quotes. Then, I faintly remember CalifJim saying eomething like that he was taught to hypenated something like "I-am-good-and-i-know-it" bef
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I might as well say it again for the benefit of other readers, although it has evidently not penetrated to you: these phrases and clauses are far too awkward to consider using either kind of punctuation. They ought not to be used at all; they simply demonstrate the writer's lack of vocabulary.
She has a smug attitude.
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I might as well say it again for the benefit of other readers, although it has evidently not penetrated to you: these phrases and clauses are far too awkward to consider using either kind of punctuation. They ought not to be used at all; they simply demonstrate the writer's lack of vocabulary.
She has a smug attitude.
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