In Word order^x, Hyphens^x

Hi Pola, and welcome to the forums! When you want to use describe different aspects of something (color and texture, size and color, etc.) don't link them with hyphens. You really need to change your word order. He was a young man with short, oily hair. (Not: short oily-haired man because you...

Generally speaking, hyphens are used in compound adjectives using comparatives and superlatives. However, I personally would not use a hyphen in your sentences.In your sentences, you can avoid the hyphenation question completely simply by changing the word order:"As a result of , we are able to...

From Wikipedia-- "A definitive collection of hyphen rules does not exist", then this-- "hyphens are generally not used in ... adverb-adjective compound modifiers". I don't know how rigid the rule is, because I'm still tempted to think that word order can be relevant: "How many...

I could be wrong, but I think B sounds better. I don't believe that you should have the hyphen after Longhorn, though, because the original word "Longhorn cattle" isn't hyphenated. But I haven't been in school for a few years, so I could very well be wrong about that. Can somebody else...

"mountain" is a noun, however the wider sentence does not (cannot) treat this word in isolation, or as part of its OWN syntax. It's just like in math, when you say: 1+2*3, you have to parse (2*3) FIRST before you can parse the rest, which then becomes 1+6. If you parse things in the wrong order,...