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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

What do they mean?

I was looking at a grammar/style guide for the rules of hyphenation and in it, it had these words and am wondering what exactly they mean?

Verb + preposition or adverb (unless closed up or opened in dictionary ...

My guess is that it means "unless it is formed as one word or split into two words in dictionary."

Sorry but this just came up, why is there no article in front of the word "dictionary"?
  

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It is an abbreviated style of explanation, like ' See appendix ' or ' No parking here to corner '.

  • It is an abbreviated style of explanation, like ' See appendix ' or ' No parking here to corner '.
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It is an abbreviated style of explanation, like 'See appendix' or 'No parking here to corner'.

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