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Learnenglish Posted 19 years ago
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second hand
Dear Teacher,
I have found the sentence on a webside:
It's out of print but you can find second hand copies fairly easily.
I have seen "second hand" is written as "second-hand" in some dictionaries. But which form is correct? Thank you.
I have found the sentence on a webside:
It's out of print but you can find second hand copies fairly easily.
I have seen "second hand" is written as "second-hand" in some dictionaries. But which form is correct? Thank you.
Top answer
Hyphens are rather slippery characters, and many nouns appear in all three forms ( bookshop, book-shop, book shop ). w=secondhand&ls=a ]secondhand[/url]. w=second-hand&ls=a ]second-hand[/url].
- Hyphens are rather slippery characters, and many nouns appear in all three forms ( bookshop, book-shop, book shop ).
- w=secondhand&ls=a ]secondhand[/url].
- w=second-hand&ls=a ]second-hand[/url].
- w=second+hand&ls=a ]second hand[/url], seems to be mostly for the noun.
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Hyphens are rather slippery characters, and many nouns appear in all three forms (bookshop, book-shop, book shop). In this case, however, we are looking at a premodifying adjective, which according to most on-line dictionaries is a single word, [url=http://www.onelook.com/?w=secondhand&ls=a]secondhand[/u
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