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Oliver Walter United Kingdom Local time: 17:20 German to English + ...
How I would state the rule
Nov 9, 2016
Good explanations have been given,e.g. by John Fossey and cocannon. I sometimes notice the incorrect presence or absence of hyphens and I describe the rule like this: in the example "automatic disposal unit" or "automatic-disposal" unit the hyphen is correct if "automatic-disposal" is intended to be like a single adjective that describes "unit". If the sense is intended to be that it's (a) an automatic unit and (b) a disposal unit, the hyphen is omitted because each of the words "a... See more
Good explanations have been given,e.g. by John Fossey and cocannon. I sometimes notice the incorrect presence or absence of hyphens and I describe the rule like this: in the example "automatic disposal unit" or "automatic-disposal" unit the hyphen is correct if "automatic-disposal" is intended to be like a single adjective that describes "unit". If the sense is intended to be that it's (a) an automatic unit and (b) a disposal unit, the hyphen is omitted because each of the words "automatic" and "disposal" is an adjective that applies to "unit". ▲ Collapse
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