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Anonymous wrote: Hi, thank you for your help with this! A question arose today regarding numbers and when they're hyphenated in text and when they're not. Examples: There are 30 tons of hay being delivered today. or There are 30-tons of hay being delivered today? This 19-acre property?......

Hello, Delly. You may want to consider the following points: 1. Sentence #3 is fine. A lot of grammar books would not recommend the use of a hyphen in noun+participle compounds (convenience driven) acting as adjectives IF they are not found before the noun (consumers) being described. 2....

1) It is not capitalised as it is not starting a new sentence, nor is it a proper noun. There is not requirement to start quotes with a capital letter. 2) There is no special rule for hyphens inside quotes. Just use standard hyphen rules.

Hi, Help 1. Why does the article, either a or the, have to appear in the second one (as it lookes to me)? students in math/English class students in the/a Basic math/English class 2. Would you write in 'the' for it to modify the underlined part? (The??) National Novel Writing Month could...

Hi, Swann discusses this at length in his Practical Engllish Usage, sections 422 to 425 (Nouns in Groups) in my edition. It's best if you can read this, or some other good grammar book, as it's hard to summarize all his detailed points. Here are a few of his comments. The fisrt noun usually...

Anonymous wrote: Hyphens can be tricky. I hope the following helps... Hyphenated nouns -- In the case of nouns formed from two or more words joined by hyphens, usually only the last word forms a plural. However, there are a few cases in which only the first word forms a plural. For example:...

I'm going to leave the parts of speech part to someone else - I'm terrible at that. But the same comments I made about the hyphens still apply. The style guide I follow says to NOT hyphenate -ly words, and you don't do it (regardless of whether there is an -ly) when it does not come immediately...

#1 is correct. Use the hyphens when the phrase is used to decribe a noun, but not generally after the verb. She attends school part time. (no hyphen). She is a part-time student. The other style "rule" (and I use the quotations, because this is a style, not a grammar issue, and there are...

You meet face to face, but you have a face-to-face meeting. Use the hyphens when the entire phrase modifies a noun.

You use the hyphens when the phrase is used to describe a noun. You are enrolled half time, but your enrollment status is that of half-time student. It modifies student, as your examples modify school and and person.