Wow! Your knowledge is incredible! I somehow understood eveything you said, thanks. Except for when you said this: We have become friends sharing passions. ... where the "friends sharing passions..." is the direct object of the verb .

Hi, Is it ok to use two adverbs in this sense: "he was a deeply socially aware person"? It doesn't sound quite natural to me but I don't see why it's wrong either. The problem for the reader is to know whether

a combination of higher-ed administrations This is not a comparative: it's short for "higher education" When you have two words that modify a noun, you often (usually) hyphenate them. Higher-education administrators, full-time

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

I just spotted a couple of typos (probably), one double space, and a couple of places where I'd use commas. I was expecting your email, Jane; I am glad to receive it. I have one question though: did you decide on your wedding date? Are you

I would write: Mr Jones, who will be 45 years old next month, ... Mr Jones will be 45 years old next month. Mr Jones will be 45 years old next month; he will then be a 45-year-old man. The hyphens in the last example prevent the phrase

Hello, I wonder if you could help me a little with adverbs and hyphens? Am I correct in thinking any sentence or phrase used adverbially doesn't require a hyphen? Such as: "Mr Jones, who will be 45-years-old next month." So

Although I previously stated in this forum that well does not take the hyphen, just like -ly ending adverbs, I was 100% wrong. I had been thinking much as you do. It's a style issue, but most style guides do support hyphenation with well .

Hi, I think Mr. M once told me (or us) something to the effect that when you have to put a hyphenated word in the quotation marks, one mark is enough. I think what he meant is you can either choose the hyphen or quotation marks. Can we use