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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Why are they capitalized and hyphenated?
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00 I found this writing from a brochure and why are the underlined words capitalized and the colored word hypehenated? 02 br
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01 i 00 US Code on CD-ROM contains the consolidated 00 full-text 00 of all 50 titles of the 01 u 00 Federal 02 u 00 government offiicial compendium of US laws in effect as of Janurary 16th, 1986. Includes the 01 u 00 Popular Names 02 u 00 listing. 02 i 02 br
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00 Also, why the date, January 16th, have "th" in it for I know some grammar books say (literally) that it is not used in formal writings? 0-
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00 I found this writing from a brochure and why are the underlined words capitalized and the colored word hypehenated? 02 br
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01 i 00 US Code on CD-ROM contains the consolidated 00 full-text 00 of all 50 titles of the 01 u 00 Federal 02 u 00 government offiicial compendium of US laws in effect as of Janurary 16th, 1986. Includes the 01 u 00 Popular Names 02 u 00 listing. 02 i 02 br
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00 Also, why the date, January 16th, have "th" in it for I know some grammar books say (literally) that it is not used in formal writings? 0-
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0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 00 You know there isn't some sort of government body that goes around inspecting 100% of everything that people write. You will often find errors in things. People also prefer different styles.
- 0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 00 You know there isn't some sort of government body that goes around inspecting 100% of everything that people write.
- You will often find errors in things.
- People also prefer different styles.
- You can't ask why this writer decided to do what he or she did, only they know that.
- I would have given Federal a capital myself, but not popular nanes.
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0 Hi, 02 br
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00 You know there isn't some sort of government body that goes around inspecting 100% of everything that people write. You will often find errors in things. People also prefer different styles. You can't ask why this writer decided to do what he or she did, only they know that. I would have given Federal a capital myself, but not popular nanes. 'th' is perfectly
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00 You know there isn't some sort of government body that goes around inspecting 100% of everything that people write. You will often find errors in things. People also prefer different styles. You can't ask why this writer decided to do what he or she did, only they know that. I would have given Federal a capital myself, but not popular nanes. 'th' is perfectly
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0 Thank you. How would you write this phrase if the initial two letters of "popular names" are not capitalized? 02 br
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01 i 00 the popular names' listing or the popular name's listing or the popular names listing 02 i 02 br
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00 If the 01 u 00 popular names 02 u 00 are capitalized, how would you write it? 02 br
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01 i 00 the popular names' listing or the popular name's listing or the popular names listing 02 i 02 br
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00 If the 01 u 00 popular names 02 u 00 are capitalized, how would you write it? 02 br
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0 Hi there, 02 br
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00 The noun here appears to be 01 i 00 Popular Names listing 02 i 00 so “the” is the determiner for the whole thing. No apostrophe is required in this case. Although why Popular Names is capitalised is anybody’s guess. As the helpful Nona advises, I wouldn’t get too hung up on anything you read on a company product. These are often very bad
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00 The noun here appears to be 01 i 00 Popular Names listing 02 i 00 so “the” is the determiner for the whole thing. No apostrophe is required in this case. Although why Popular Names is capitalised is anybody’s guess. As the helpful Nona advises, I wouldn’t get too hung up on anything you read on a company product. These are often very bad
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0 Here in "the Popular Names listing," can you use the words "Popular Names" as a sort of adjective? Don't you need to hyphenate somewhere? If you do, where would you put it? 0-
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0 Hyphenating is not necessary, and it would give an inelegant look to the phrase. Simmilarly there is no need to hyphenate "full text" as the original has done. 02 br
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00 To make clear that Popular Names Listing is one noun or subject, all of the words could be capitalised as they are in this sentence. The alternative would be to write "the list of popular names" (with or wi
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00 To make clear that Popular Names Listing is one noun or subject, all of the words could be capitalised as they are in this sentence. The alternative would be to write "the list of popular names" (with or wi
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0 Thank you for your laborious yet appreciated explanation. This might be what has happened. The entity that published this article to the public might had a separate public paper/list that was headed "Popular Names" and to make a reference to that list, they capitalized the words "Popular Names." Again, sorry for dragging this thing out for long but I had to because I didn't understand fully.
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