By Hyphens, Nouns

. 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 the greater noun phrase.

Hi,I think Mr. M said something to the effect that when two or more nouns are used as a compound noun, there should be no need to hyphenate.Case I use to ask a question in a previous post:A pencil that can also be used as an eraser:I want to have a pencil eraser (or pencil-eraser??).For this, I...

Instead of "a percent", say "a percentage" if you mean the ratio, or "a percent(age) sign" if you mean the symbol. Instead of "percents", say "percentages" if you mean ratios, or "percent(age) signs" if you mean symbols. I don't...

Yes, use a hyphen to join a noun-phrase that modifies a noun. 300-meter dash 200-page report 40-day flood

HiIs it "a single-layer film" or "a single-layered film" or both are correct?(The film can have multiple layers, and each layer is formed separately.)Thanks in advance, iPS. Is the hyphen correctly used here?

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,...

Hi,Please take a look at this.... involved with modern, western "come every two hours and sit in the room."I am pretty sure you can treat "come every two hours and sit in the room" like an uncountable noun.Can I make it a countable noun like this?Everyday, a "come every...

Hi,I think I have seen more than enough cases where what people call a verbal noun has the indefinite article 'a' in front of it and at the very least, the sheer number (should it be - sheer numbrs??) of it warrants some good explanations from experts in this forum. I think I can laid out...

words are combined to form a modifier immediately preceding a noun, join the words by hyphens if doing so will significantly aid the reader in recognizing the compound adjective". This leaves it to the writer's judgement to decide whether there is any significant risk of confusion...

Hi,I think I have seen more than few cases where people did not hyphenate those words with multiple nouns and people reading them seemed to take the practice as normal. Is it normal, acceptable or correct (possibly)?public library staff meeting Why not? public-library staff meeting (is it...