By Pronouns, Hyphens

Hi N2GIt 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 sentence,...

I find your sentence very satisfactory. It may be Jane Austenish but there is no law against such language even today. Why should everybody speak and write in exactly the same way in English? People don't do that in many other languages. I see no mistakes in punctuation or hyphens but I know...

Just a side note, with nothing to do with the commas: ...and giving it to its soldiers. Most corporations do not have soldiers, so this pronoun leaves me wondering who or what the soldiers do belong to. Of course, if this is science fiction, then perhaps the corporation does have soldiers.

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 link.

Hi, I have two phrases below and wish you would answer some questions. 1. uses as a "getting to know each other" game/activity How do we know when do hypenate the phrase in quotation marks or just write them out as a person has done obviously above? The purpose of hyphens would be to show...

Thanks Clive Please look at the following sentences of the above. Nearby, a huge crane waited to lift it into place on top of the church dome, for the crowning moment of a reconciliation process that has lasted nearly 60 years - and is not entirely over yet. The...

VERY interesting question, Guest-- because it caused me to discover that Google does not distinguish between hyphenated words and two-word nouns. Results: 'Woman hater'- 8170 hits 'Woman-hater' - 8170 hits 'Women hater' - 5090 hits 'Women-hater' - 5090 hits I'd say they are all acceptable,...