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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 give some sentences that include the kind...

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 seemed to have said something to the effect that...

. 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, 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) ... submitting the updated treasury/president's...

Hi, When we hyphenate the adjectives, the usual reasoning given is that it is done to prevent people from thinking the adjectives modify the noun individually when the adjectives hyphenated should be considered as one word. Fine, but how a person can get confused when taken individually, 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...

I'm afraid you are seeing it the wrong way. The hyphen doesn't extend to the following noun. I can see what you mean though. Sometimes hyphens can lead to some ambiguitiy but I think this tends to happen more when we have hyphenated adjectives followed by nouns, than hyphenation of noun-noun....

Grammar Geek wrote: Both phrases are obvioulsy part of the jargon of some branch of science. Those who are not up on this jargon can't guess which ones are linked. Is it "system-orientened" or "system-oriented-fixture"? We wouldn't know. It's up to the author to help us understand how they...

Both phrases are obvioulsy part of the jargon of some branch of science. Those who are not up on this jargon can't guess which ones are linked. Is it "system-orientened" or "system-oriented-fixture"? We wouldn't know. It's up to the author to help us understand how they link by included the...

Aperisic wrote: I think I have better examples expert system oriented fixture design methods expert system oriented module Where are the hyphens hidden? I'll quote myself here. In these two examples there are together exactly three hyphens. Both have at least one hyphen. ...