. 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

I think a preposition can only be followed by noun, pronoun, gerund, and noun phrase. Please have a look on this POST . Link: www.englishforums.com/English/DifferenceBetweenMeaningThese-SentencesUsedPlayCricket/ *** /Post.htm Use

1-- It looks like an adjective phrase-- or a very truncated adjective clause (no S and no V): my own school, lucrative enough.... 2-- The trouble is that the heart is racing , but something else (probably the person) is gasping for air . I would

Hi Andrew, How would you punctuate this: Clearly, the one gene-one protein relationship does not apply to schizophrenia. One gene-one protein relationship? One-gene one-protein relationship? One-gene/one-protein relationship? One gene,

Hello Mara This is not an answer to your question. This is just a comment on the question you raised. All of what you are asking is exactly the things that have annoyed me long time since I began studying English. Some native speakers grudge that

It depends on the relationships between the words and the clarity or lack of clarity in the combination: Your 'risky decision-making' is a noun phrase (object of 'associated with') and its meaning is 'a risky type of decision-making'; 'risky'