In Nouns^x, Hyphens^x

1 I have a fishing rod 2 I read an interesting book Is in 1 fishing a gerund or a participle in 1 OR In 1 is fishing a JTT The placement of in 1 is unnatural Hanuman In 2 interesting is a participle Am I right Then why ISN T fishing in 1 is not a participle Paco has covered this well I ll just...

It depends on the relationships between the words and the clarity or lack of clarity in the combination Your risky decision making is a noun phrase object of associated with and its meaning is a risky type of decision making risky modifies the noun and the hyphen makes that clear If it were to...

When the numerator 1 the denominator is singular one half one third one quarter OR one fourth Note that denominators of 5 or higher are all ordinal numbers one fifth one sixth one seventh one eighth one ninth one tenth and so on When the numerator is greater than one the denominator is pluralized...

Are there any rules as to when the hyphen should be used with nouns For example is it the drumkit the drum kit or the drum kit How do we know when there should be a hyphen when there should not be one and when the words can be written separately

1 Worse is the comparative of bad while worst is the superlative bad worse the worst His new movie is worse than his last Your cooking is getting worse compared to before Among his movies the newest one is the worst This is the worst of all 2 I m reproducing Taiwandave s post in its entirety The...

So called a compound adjective with hyphen means that are normally called perceived as falsely thought of as or having gotten a reputation as When people put so called in front of a noun or a modifier they imply a doubt or an uncertainty about the legitimacy or validity of that modifier noun...

I see Mr Micawber So we can say one and two thirds noun p but we absolutely cannot say two thirds noun We have to say two thirds of a noun s since two thirds is less than 1 right Another one I am confused about is hyphen It seems two thirdS is correct what about two hours or two years or two...

It is a fraction The hyphen is incorrect or at least unnecessary I suppose it is a remnant of the slash in 2 3 in the mind of the writer Better would be about two thirds of the population As an adjective it should hyphenated a two thirds majority of the Senate is required a three quarter length...

Hi Henk I was wondering dear sir why you didn t use the word feet in the 2 sentences enter the wreck at a depth of 443 and usable up to a depth of 1150 Embarrassingly I don t remember the whole text and did not save a copy Perhaps I deleted the feet in error please reinsert them By the way...

It depends on how you will use it The hyphenated one is used as an adjective before nouns as in state of the art technology Many native speakers tend to omit hyphens which I believe is a bad habit If you want to use the term as a noun do not use any hyphens Then it will be the state of the art Do...