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Goronsky Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Suspensive Hyphen

Very, very technically speaking, is the suspensI've hyphen used correctly in the following examples? No rephrasing, please.

• a $90- to $95-million-a-year increase in funding

• a $45,000- to $55,000-a-year savings

• 5- to 10-year-old children

• a 1- to 2-inch-deep laceration

Thank you very much. ??
  

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What are you suspending in the second example?

  • What are you suspending in the second example?
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What are you suspending in the second example?
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I don't follow what you're asking.
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How would you, deadrat, punctuate those exact examples?
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Sorry, a brief contemplation of the example answered my own question. They're all correct.

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