I'd agree with everything Clive says. The answer is E . Regarding your obssession over the hyphenation, it is fine to add information between two hyphens, but this is usually unnecessary. E.g. I went to the cinema - despite wanting to stay at

Hi, You might like to consider this, for example, where it deals with compound adjectives and hyphenation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound My 'Oxford Companion to the Eglish Language' also has a small but interesting section

Hi, 1. Mr. M wrote this sentence as a response in a thread named "Please correct the sentence." Why no hyphen is needed for the phrase "call forwarding" as I can tell from his sentence?One reason I can think of is that they are

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

Hi, Thank you so much. You asked/said: I think certain words like "am" or "so" are not hyphenated when used as part of a hyphenated noun or a hyphenated adjective. Why is that? I'm not sure what you mean. Can you

Hi, I was looking online for some help on adjectives and came upon a help (tip) source called "Grammatically Correct." In it, in the section called "Using Hyphens in Compound Adjectives (and Exceptions to the Rule) by John Davis, he

. 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

. If I had to, I would do this: 1) ... submitted a featured-speaker nomination . But preferable: 'a nomination for featured speaker '. 2) ... submitting the updated treasurer's /president's report. 3) ... talk about national

Hi, Please tell me if you would use hyphens for these. 1) ... submitted a featured-speaker nomination. -- I would use a hyphen since I feel both 'featured' and 'speaker' do not describe the main noun 'nomination' 2) ...