By Hyphens, Grammar

Hi N2GIt has become more and more fashionable to use hyphens in English and therefore some might put a hyphen between much and needed but I don't think that is necessary. I wouldn't object to one, either. Clearly, the relative clause is a non-defining one and thus a comma is needed,...

No, you won't have separate keys for dashes; there's some info about how to enter them at the references I gave. The two-hyphens method is good for ASCII-only text (where dashes aren't in the character set at all), or mediums such as email and discussion forums, but wouldn't be...

(1) However, after being told she would not be allowed to present the speech herself, that instead it would be read at the assembly by a male student, she turned down the offer. Her future was in public speaking and she would not be denied. Should it be "instead"? Can...

.(1) So, can we use hyphen in the above sentence as "five-years-old" or is it wrong to use?-- Wrong. 'A three-year-old' is a pronoun. (2) Does the second sentence need any correction or rephrasing? -- In the first sentence, no comma after Spectator. In the second sentence,...

(1) As a small child, Sarah witnessed a horsewhipping of one of the slaves and, even at five years old, she detected something inherently wrong. On March 7, 1870, when she was seventy-nine years old, Sarah led a procession through a blizzard to the local polling place. Chicago style guide says...

The first is awkwardly written. As feminist foremother Alice Paul had labeled it decades earlier, the movement was truly "the great mosaic." They are describing Alice Paul as a pioneer in the feminist movement. The term "forefather" is commonly used to mean the people who...

Although the group sought political solidarity, the issues were scattered, covering everything from "equal pay for equal work" to "no fault" divorce to reproduction and abortion to gendered language. The movement was truly as feminist foremother Alice Paul had labeled it...

actually, after examining this page, I'm convinced that they're drawing a secondary distinction..... they say that phrasal adjectives functioning as 'predicate adjectives' do not recieve hyphenation. I completely disagree with that opinion. example: a text-based...

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. See this:...

Hi, Early-onset, severe retinal dystrophy caused by mutations in the gene encoding retinal pigment epithelium–specific 65-kDa protein (RPE65) is associated with poor vision at birth and complete loss of vision in early adulthood. Did you mean "the retinal pigment epithelium refers to the...