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Hi,You might like to consider this, for example, where it deals with compound adjectives and hyphenation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compoundMy 'Oxford Companion to the Eglish Language' also has a small but interesting section on hyphens (it notes that their use "has always...

Orthography/punctuation experts,Do you hyphenate ordinal numbers such as twenty-third, or fifty-sixth, or not?Thank you in advance.

Hi PhilipIf 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_compoundScroll down to "Compound Hyphenated Adjectives" and then down to the part headed with"The following compound...

Lcwang wrote:Thanks for reply, Believer. But I thought that adjectives in the form of 'numbers + unit-of-measurement' are to be hyphenated. Such as: a ten-story building. How come the rule doesn't apply here? For issues about hyphenation, my advice would be to pick a dictionary and use...

I'd hyphenate and use the singular for all such number adjectives (including hyphenation with the unit of measure). a one-hundred-and-ninety-one-dollar tax CJ Actually, to be perfectly honest, I'd rephrase it!

Hello rd, welcome to EF! Hyphenation is very personal...But I'd write it as follows: "...the numbers are staggering: in the mid-nineteenth century, over seventy-five thousand acres of rice were productive in the region, yielding one hundred and sixty million pounds of rice. In 1860, when the...

Hello, all. What a great forum! I'm not sure if this is the right spot for this question; if not, let me know. Here's a paragraph I'm working on, in which all numbers are to be written out. I'm confused about the rule on hyphenation when it comes to quantity and as modifiers. Can anyone...

Here's a paragraph I'm working on, in which all numbers are to be written out. I'm confused about the rule on hyphenation when it comes to quantity and as modifiers. Can anyone help? The troublesome paragraph: "...the numbers are staggering: in the mid-nineteenth century, over seventy-five...

Sorry to be so long, but I have been looking for a good comprehensive internet source on dashes; all the information seems to be in bits and pieces, and some of it is quite contradictory. Here is a good excerpt, however, from the Get it Write website: 'A number of you have written to ask us to...