Five-star or five star ??

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Joey_five

#154168 Wed, 02 Nov 05 05:47 AM

... This is a beautiful five star / five-star hotel....

I know both forms are being used, (but I've never seen people write "ice cream". Wink [;)] but which is more correct?

And is there any rules for using hypen??

Thanks in advance!!

Joey_five

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paco2004

#154174 Wed, 02 Nov 05 06:00 AM

I'll hyphenate it like "five-star" to lessen confusion such as below described.

Compare two sentences.
(1) There are five star hotels.
(2) There are five-star hotels.
Someone possibly takes (1) as saying "There are 5 Star Hotels"

paco

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