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Goronsky Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Question for Rover (or others)...
I guess I was way off. I thoroughly read a section on the 'correct' usage of suspended hyphenation.
Chicago 16 uses the following example:
a group of eight- to ten-year-olds
Albeit ugly and without recasting the examples below, have I properly used the suspended hyphens, especially based on Chicago's exemplar above? I do believe that all my examples are punctuated correctly. Do you concur, as per the technical rules of suspended hyphenation? Please note the single space used after the hyphen in the first series of numbers listed in each example below to denote the suspended hyphenation.
(1) He once owned and operated a $100-million- to $150-million-a-year business. (Is this technically correct punctuation with the suspended hyphens?)
(2) He once owned and operated a $100- to $150-million-a-year business. (This one is probably better; do you concur?)
(3) The figures represented a $100,000- to $120,000-a-year increase in funding. (Is this okay?)
(4) Or, probably better would be:
The figures represented a $100- to $120,000-a-year increase in funding. (Is this technically correct as well?)
(5) The figures represented a
10- to 20-percent-a-year increase in revenues. (Suspended hyphens okay?)
Chicago 16 uses the following example:
a group of eight- to ten-year-olds
Albeit ugly and without recasting the examples below, have I properly used the suspended hyphens, especially based on Chicago's exemplar above? I do believe that all my examples are punctuated correctly. Do you concur, as per the technical rules of suspended hyphenation? Please note the single space used after the hyphen in the first series of numbers listed in each example below to denote the suspended hyphenation.
(1) He once owned and operated a $100-million- to $150-million-a-year business. (Is this technically correct punctuation with the suspended hyphens?)
(2) He once owned and operated a $100- to $150-million-a-year business. (This one is probably better; do you concur?)
(3) The figures represented a $100,000- to $120,000-a-year increase in funding. (Is this okay?)
(4) Or, probably better would be:
The figures represented a $100- to $120,000-a-year increase in funding. (Is this technically correct as well?)
(5) The figures represented a
10- to 20-percent-a-year increase in revenues. (Suspended hyphens okay?)
Top answer
There is no 'technically correct' answer. The use of hyphens is a matter of convention, and not all style guides give exactly the same advice.
- There is no 'technically correct' answer.
- The use of hyphens is a matter of convention, and not all style guides give exactly the same advice.
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There is no 'technically correct' answer. The use of hyphens is a matter of convention, and not all style guides give exactly the same advice.
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