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Hyphenation

Posted By: Cardiology MT on 2007-05-07
In Reply to: Hyphenation Question - Jazzer

Subject: Hyphenation

You hyphenate "well-appearing female", not "she is well appearing". Hyphenation is difficult. You hyphenate two adjectives appearing before a noun, such as "small-sized amount". See if what is modifying the noun would make sense if standing alone. Small would, but sized would not.

You are right in that it is confusing. I hope I have helped you in some small way.



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