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Hi I m working on a project with this online community on whether to use hyphens or to combine words for a certain language According to what I ve heard the language has been labeled as a monosyllabic language However it only seems that way because of the limitations of the RPA grammar words with...

Fast is an adjective modifying the noun decision making Decision making requires the hyphen but no other is needed except for real time which as an adjective should be hyphenated also

VERY interesting question Guest because it caused me to discover that Google does not distinguish between hyphenated words and two word nouns Results Woman hater 8170 hits Woman hater 8170 hits Women hater 5090 hits Women hater 5090 hits I d say they are all acceptable although my own preference...

Hello Guest If you want to focus on correctness you might want to avoid using eleven year old without the hyphens The reason is that if you use the three words separately you need the plural years when you talk about eleven On the other hand it is correct to use the noun year in singular if you...

I have a phrase with three elements an adverb an adjective and a noun Usually I would connect the adverb and the adjective with a hyphen However my adverb is two words Should I put another hyphen between these two words Can I follow a general rule language model building process OR language model...

1 The has is required because it shows that it s a present perfect tense ie Jones denied using drugs in the past and at present is still denying it It s a repetition and continuation of the verb denied from the past to the present If you say Jones consistently denied it implies that he only...

I would argue that world famous should be hyphenated when used as an adjective that is modifying a noun as in He s a world famous photographer The case for using a hyphen is perhaps weaker when it s a predicative complement That painting is world famous The hyphen in summer friendly products is...

Miriam Keep in mind that this article reflects British usage Americans use less hyphens than the British and in particular have a penchant for creating compound words The following are all correct in American English agribusiness bailout buildup buyout catchphrase endgame fainthearted fieldworker...

There have been a number of recent questions concerning when to use hypens The following is an excerpt from The Economist magazine s style guide The Economist Newspaper Limited 2004 Use hyphens for 1 FRACTIONS whether nouns or adjectives two thirds four fifths one sixth etc 2 MOST WORDS THAT...

waves hello At the same time North Rhine Westphalia s finances are overstretched because of weaker than expected tax revenues Andrei you say that weaker than expected is fine And it is but not when you want to use the whole phrase as the premodifier of a noun You wouldn t need the hyphens if the...