By Hyphens, Nouns

Yes, early is an adjective in the example you mentioned. I took the following guidelines for using hyphens from Guide to Grammar and Writing (http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm), a very good online resource for the English grammar. You can see the full text on hyphens at...

Thank you. As to No. 1, I posted previously with the following two sentences and asked whether these are fine grammatically. I think the answer or response to that post was this: You need some kind of an object. The sentences I posted were/are???: Please let me know if getting better. Please...

1.The sentences have elliptical structure.They do not have an agent either. Some verbs are so commonly used in the passive, without mentioning an agent, that they work in a similar way to -ed adjectives. 2. 'Listener-based' is a compound expression: it needs a hyphen. 3. Compound noun (no...

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, FAQ is the correct acronym for frequently asked questions. Note the absence of a hyphen between frequently and asked. Here is the excerpt: FAQ (fak) noun Acronym for frequently asked questions. A document listing common questions and answers on a...

40-dollar job. Note the hyphen. Nouns as adjectives are singular: 10-minute break, ten-dollar bill, seven-year itch fall into the wrong hands-- this is the idiomatic phrasal verb, which cannot be manipulated. none that I know of = None (of the e.g. players) that I know of. Not that I know...

Thank you. I have this feeling of uneasiness about using hyphens to form a noun? Is it done often? Can you refer me to a source where I can learn how to make the nouns like that properly? Why not just write out like this? He is a soon-to-be college student. (I think this is OK too.)

It looks to me like "extend an invitation" is acting like a verb. If you were talking about giving out written invitations, then it would be a noun and pluralized. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this. My dictionary lists subdivided as one word, no hyphen. Also, Eiffel is a proper noun....

However, in quantitative expressions of the following type there is possible variation: a ten day absence With temporal nouns in the plural, the apostrophe is sometimes omitted: several weeks'/weeks vacation Pages 325 &1333, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, by Randolph...

Dear teachers, Is it true that the construction "materially-progressive heaven" is incorrect in English ? First because if we use a hyphen to make a compound modifier both words should modify the noun that follows, which is not the case here since “heaven” can’t be modified by the word ...

Ryanz0r wrote:Hi everyone! I came across this forum upon searching for an answer to this query I have. I've always believed it to be "well written" because "well" is an adverb simply describing the passive adjective "written," where hyphenation is only necessary if an adjective is describing...