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DiAAnaP Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Quick question about compound adjective

If written in a title should both part of the compound adjective be capitalized?
Ex:"Intro about Genetically-Modified Produces"?

Or should the "modified" there be de-capitalized?
  

Top answer

diAAnaP If written in a title should both part of the compound adjective be capitalized? No. diAAnaP Or should the "modified" there be de-capitalized?

— Mister Micawber

  • diAAnaP If written in a title should both part of the compound adjective be capitalized?
  • No.
  • diAAnaP Or should the "modified" there be de-capitalized?
  • Yes.
  • — Introduction to Genetically-modified Products
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diAAnaPIf written in a title should both part of the compound adjective be capitalized?
No.
diAAnaPOr should the "modified" there be de-capitalized?
Yes. Also, 'produce' is uncountable:

Introduction to Genetically-modified Produce

or do you mean this?—

Introduction to Genet
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Aha! I had forgotten that '-ly' adverbs do not take a hyphen! (Thank you, teechr.) So you do therefore need to capitalize it. I am amending my previous advice to this:

Introduction to Genetically Modified Produce
Introduction to Genetically Modified Products
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and thank you Mister Micawber too!
I hadn't noticed that the OP was talking about the title of something. Emotion: embarrassed
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The capitalization style I follow is to capitalize both parts of a compound word. This is style, not grammar. So bring consistent is the key. Clearly Mr M and I follow different style guides but we can both be correct as long as we are consistent.
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BarbaraPASo being consistent is the key.
minor typo! Emotion: wink
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Thanks. This site isn't well optimized for a mobile experience and the autocomplete is often stranger than normal (and I can't see my entire post until I hit post). I can't edit or verify posts from my phone either
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I hate the autocomplete feature on smartphones so much that I've turned it off the on mine. Emotion: stick out tongue
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It's newest quirk is to make weekday plurals possessive. Friday's. Ugh.
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BarbaraPA Its newest quirk
I think that's yet another one!
Are you sure you still want to keep it turned on?
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teechrI hate the autocomplete feature on smartphones so much that I've turned it off the on mine.
... that I've turned it off on mine.

LOL

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