Memos show Clinton turmoil Question: I would have written ''Clinton's turmoil''. Why didn't the author use apostrophe? BY CRAIG GORDON AND TOM BRUNE | <email addresses removed by mod.> August 13, 2008 Question: Why

The fifteenth SAARC summit begins in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, with the member states calling for joint actions to combat terrorism, poverty and price hikes. But the basic questions remain: what has SAARC the grouping of the South Asian

I have two red and yellow shirts. Are they Spanish football shirts? By the way I don't agree with GG. The picture this draws for me is that each shirt has both colours. And obviously it's not possible to clarify speach by adding hyphens.

Hi, When she was 16-years-old a 16-year-old is a noun. 16 years old (ie no hyphens) is an adjectival phrase she ran away (preposition) from home and moved to London, then ( adverb) New York to work as ( adverb ) a nurse. During ( preposition)

I know the rule that we're supposed to hyphenate compound adjectives when they appear before a noun and not after a noun. For example: "My parents want me to attend a well-known university." "The school I attend is well

Hi, — Forest regeneration is the act of renewing tree cover by establishing young trees naturally or artificially-generally , promptly after the previous stand or forest has been removed. In the sentense above, what does the compound word

. You may want someone else to respond for a change, but let me say that my prime concern when considering hyphenation is whether the hyphen is needed to make sense of the relationship of the two nouns between themselves and within the context of

Hi, I think Mr. M said something to the effect that when two or more nouns are used as a compound noun, there should be no need to hyphenate. Case I use to ask a question in a previous post: A pencil that can also be used as an eraser: I want to

Hi, Please tell me why no article is needed here. You need an article. we will meet on the second Saturday night ( from my birthday ). I think we usually place the definite article 'the' before situations like this. He is the second -

Yes. Many would prefer a hyphen: a half-hour , probably because the indefinite article is normally after half: half an hour. CB