By Adverbs, Hyphens

Anonymous wrote: Hi Please advise me whether I have to use hyphen in words involving adverb, e.g., "actively-managed portfolio". Thanks for your help in this regard I was taught, many years ago, that the modification is hyphenated if it precedes the noun, not hyphenated if it...

Hi Please advise me whether I have to use hyphen in words involving adverb, e.g., "actively-managed portfolio". Thanks for your help in this regard

Hi yulysess, Do you mean to write: Surviving a crisis depends upon a.........and well thought-out (*no hyphen) plan and a commitment to.........communication with the public throughout the crisis. I'd pick c (without the hyphen). Of course, one can argue that "thoroughly" and "well" both...

Hello The OED I have suggests that 'up to date' be without hyphens when it is used as an adverb, but be 'up-to-date' with hyphens when used as an adjective. Also 'up-dately', 'up-to-datish', 'up-to-dateness' and 'up-to-datism'. Hope it heps paco

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...

The following is from The Economist magazine's style guide. (© The Economist Newspaper Limited 2004). ADJECTIVES FORMED FROM TWO OR MORE WORDS Examples: right-wing groups (but the right wing of the party) balance-of-payments difficulties private-sector wages public-sector borrowing...

I'm a medical transcriptionist, and would like to hear someone elses opinion regarding hyphens whether they should be used in a sentence such as this or not. "The patient was evaluated on xx/xx/xx, for a right-greater-than-left leg swelling the last three weeks." One response to this explains...

I'd like to help, but I'm not sure I understand the meaning of your phrase. Are you talking about "the process of building a language model"? Or is it something different? Also, I can't find an adverb in that structure. Would you clarify this a bit, please? Thank you. Miriam

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...

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....