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Hi again, The only thing I can find where the hyphen is used as you say, is regarding a 1993 Oklahoma indictment where the expression "one-count felony information" is used repeatedly as if it were a compound noun. Perhaps it's a legal term used only in Oklahoma. Edit. As...

Thank you, Mr. M. In the case of 'rust remover', it seems proper to write as such but can you give me some example two nouns linked/connected with a hyphen would be appropriate? What criteria, if there are any that can be laid out, are there for the purpose of making what I think is such a...

Robboe wrote: London-based company? System-driven operations? 1. Climate change related event 2. Climate change-related event 3. Climate-change related event 4. Climate-change-related event is this an applicable rule? Generally hyphen is not used. Hyphen exists only when a...

1.The sentences have elliptical structure.They do not have an agent either. Some verbs are so commonly used in the passive, without mentioning an agent, that they work in a similar way to -ed adjectives. 2. 'Listener-based' is a compound expression: it needs a hyphen. 3. Compound noun...

However, in quantitative expressions of the following type there is possible variation: a ten day absence With temporal nouns in the plural, the apostrophe is sometimes omitted: several weeks'/weeks vacation Pages 325 &1333, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, by...

1) The "has" is required because it shows that it's a present perfect tense, ie. Jones denied using drugs in the past and at present, is still denying it. It's a repetition and continuation of the verb (denied) from the past to the present. If you say "Jones consistently denied", it implies that...