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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Use of quotes in this context...

the so-called "fly-by-night" operation.

or

the so-called "fly by night" operation.

Do you hyphen if in quotes?

Thank you.
  

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There is no call for either 'so called' (an infelicitous phrase) or quotation marks in your example. It should read: the fly-by-night operation However, quotation marks do not affect hyphenation.

— Mister Micawber

  • There is no call for either 'so called' (an infelicitous phrase) or quotation marks in your example.
  • It should read: the fly-by-night operation However, quotation marks do not affect hyphenation.
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There is no call for either 'so called' (an infelicitous phrase) or quotation marks in your example. It should read:

the fly-by-night operation

However, quotation marks do not affect hyphenation.
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Thanks for your reply.

Just to be 100% clear...

You mean I MUST keep the hyphens even if I use the quotation marks?
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