 103  The actress who accepted her award was well known. Well known follows the noun it describes, so no hyphen is used. A long-anticipated decision was finally made. He got a much-needed haircut yesterday. His haircut was much needed. Rule 6. Remember to use a comma, not a hyphen, between two adjectives when you could have used and between them. Examples: I have important, classified documents. Jennifer received a lovely, fragrant bouquet on Valentine's Day. Rule 7. Hyphenate all compound numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine. Examples: The teacher had thirty-two children in her classroom. Only twenty-one of the children were bilingual. Rule 8. Hyphenate all spelled-out fractions. Examples: You need one-third of a cup of sugar for that recipe. More than one-half of the student body voted for removing soda machines from campus. Hyphens with Prefixes Rule 1. The current trend is to do away with unnecessary hyphens. Therefore, attach most prefixes and suffixes onto root words without a hyphen. Examples: noncompliance copayment semiconscious fortyish Rule 2. Hyphenate prefixes when they come before proper nouns. Example: un-American Rule 3. Hyphenate prefixes ending in an a or i only when the root word begins with the same letter. 103 |
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