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. 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.

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 v-b-x-x-v without hyphens in place of *** in the above...

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...

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, one protein relationship? Some other way? I'm...

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 we ESLs are bad in using compound noun phrases....

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' modifies the noun, and the hyphen makes that...