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Hi N2G It 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,...

. (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...

(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...

1-- It looks like an adjective phrase-- or a very truncated adjective clause (no S and no V): my own school, gasping for air. ... 3-- My rationale was that I felt it made it more immediately clear for the reader that 'question-writing' is a single specific task more specific than just 'writing...

Yes, Mr. M. It helps a lot. It kind of engendered some inquiries, though. 1. In your interview in the English-test.net website, you said: From there, it didn't take much thought to realize that I could eliminate the middle man and start my own school, lucrative enough to make Japan a...

Hi Philip If you google "compound adjectives", you should be able to find a number of sources. Even Wikipedia has a bit of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound Scroll down to "Compound Hyphenated Adjectives" and then down to the part headed with "The following compound...

Grammar Geek wrote: It is three words. It is a three-word phrase. It should have the hyphens only when it is used to modify a noun, as you did with "You are a down-to-earth person." The same as "full time." She attends school full time. She is a full-time student. But "full time" is still...

Hello, Delly. You may want to consider the following points: 1. Sentence #3 is fine. A lot of grammar books would not recommend the use of a hyphen in noun+participle compounds (convenience driven) acting as adjectives IF they are not found before the noun (consumers) being described. ...

Hi, Swann discusses this at length in his Practical Engllish Usage, sections 422 to 425 (Nouns in Groups) in my edition. It's best if you can read this, or some other good grammar book, as it's hard to summarize all his detailed points. Here are a few of his comments. The fisrt noun...

#1 is correct. Use the hyphens when the phrase is used to decribe a noun, but not generally after the verb. She attends school part time. (no hyphen). She is a part-time student. The other style "rule" (and I use the quotations, because this is a style, not a grammar issue, and there are...