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Teal papaya 678 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar
Punctuation
How would this be punctuated?
You will get a ten or 15 minutes midmorning break.
Also:
You will have a ten- to 15-minute break?
Thank you.
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teal papaya 678 You will get a ten or 15 minutes midmorning break. No. You don't want this one.
- teal papaya 678 You will get a ten or 15 minutes midmorning break.
- No.
- You don't want this one.
- teal papaya 678 You will have a ten- 10– to 15-minute break.
- Write it like this.
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teal papaya 678You will get a ten or 15 minutes midmorning break.
No. You don't want this one.
teal papaya 678You will have aten-10– to 15-minute break.
Write it like this. With hanging hyphens, both elements should be in the same format.
CJ
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You will get a ten- or fifteen-minute mid-morning break.
You will have a ten- to fifteen-minute break.
Though normally it is reasonable to write "ten" as a word and "15" in digits, in this case I think it looks a bit odd to mix the two in such close association.
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