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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Writing?

1. I want to buy an English - Japanese dictionary.

2. I want to buy an English to Japanese dictionary.

Which is grammatically correct and natural? Thanks in advance.

  

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anonymous 1. I want to buy an English-Japanese dictionary. 2.

— GPY

  • anonymous 1.
  • I want to buy an English-Japanese dictionary.
  • 2.
  • I want to buy an English-to-Japanese dictionary.
  • Very strictly speaking, (1) should possibly use a dash not a hyphen, but I think most people would use a hyphen.
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anonymous1. I want to buy an English-Japanese dictionary.
2. I want to buy an English-to-Japanese dictionary.

Very strictly speaking, (1) should possibly use a dash not a hyphen, but I think most people would use a hyphen.

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Space-hyphen-space is how the Brits render an em dash on the keyboard. I do it like this: — (ALT/0151)

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