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Snarf Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Up Close

He screams with his face up-close to his.

Is that hyphen wrong there? Should it just be "up close"?

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No hyphen, and all the masculine pronouns make the meaning unclear.

— Mister Micawber

  • No hyphen, and all the masculine pronouns make the meaning unclear.
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No hyphen, and all the masculine pronouns make the meaning unclear.
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What about the hyphens in these two sentences?

1. He feels the very small cracks and bumps from age and a haphazard paint-job.
2. Then the sky turned blood-red and the clouds as black as coal.

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The first is wrong; the second is unnecessary...just as it is wrong in the dictionary definition: of the deep-red color of blood.
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