I wonder what is the guidelines for deciding whether to use hyphens or quotation marks for cases like these. ... his way was a my-life-for-yours way. (Could one have written it using quotation markslike this: ... his way was a "my life for

Hi, First, let me comment on your example, his way was a my-life-for-yours way. Whether you hyphenate this or put it in quotes, you meaning is not very clear to the reader, in my opinion. eg Do you mean he was willing to give his life to save

Yes, I think you did. At that time though, I think I was referencing a string of words used as adjectives (although theoretically or practically? the same as this one - after all, both are acting as adjectives, in my opinion) for a product (hand

Hi, Didn't you and I discuss this in an earlier thread, in which I advised you not to use more that a few hyphens (did I say 3?) in such a phrase? For anything longer, use quotes instead of hyphens. If you want to, write a few sentences and

Hi, Didn't you and I discuss this in an earlier thread, in which I advised you not to use more that a few hyphens (did I say 3?) in such a phrase? For anything longer, use quotes instead of hyphens. If you want to, write a few sentences and

Hi, I wonder what is the guidelines for deciding whether to use hyphens or quotation marks for cases like these. ... his way was a my-life-for-yours way. (Could one have written it using quotation markslike this: ... his way was a "my life

Thank you. I continued to research the issue and came across similar results. From what I think I understand the "4" and "GB" represent a compound modifier for "RAM" and generally require the hyphen. As for why I have

Hi, All my efforts seem to have two or more hyphens. These are OK. I didn't mean that you wouldn't normally have two or more hyphens in a sentence , I meant in one hyphenated 'word', eg 'left - hand drive' is OK, but

Thank you. I will tackle what looks to be easy ones from the first-post examples: All my efforts seem to have two or more hyphens. 1.Color-coordinated front and rear bumpers, fender flares, door cladding and running boars (color-keyed standard

I have noticed for years many variations of punctuation when you combine numbers and capacity abbreviations. I read a lot of technical stuff and I do not and I can not find (searching the web) a reference to the correct usage. Which is correct?