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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

a three-hour per week course

English answer:

a three-hour-per-week course

Added to glossary by Fuad Yahya
Mar 26, 2003 18:25
21 yrs ago
English term

three-hour per week

English Art/Literary Linguistics grammar
Which is correct, three-hour per week course or three-hour-per-week course?
According to my grammar book there should be a hyphen after each word because they're all functioning as one adjective, but checking on the Internet, I found only a hyphen between three and hour or no hyphen at all.
Responses
5 +11 a three-hour-per-week course
5 +2 three-hour-per-week course
5 three-hour a week
4 three-hour per week /three-hour-per week
3 -1 Three hours per week course
Change log

Dec 24, 2005 20:10: Fuad Yahya changed "Field" from "Other" to "Art/Literary"

Jan 9, 2006 07:24: Fuad Yahya changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

Responses

+11
4 mins
Selected

a three-hour-per-week course

Your grammar book is correct. The Internet is not.

a three-hour-per-week course

a three-hour lecture

and so on.
Peer comment(s):
agree Kim Metzger : This is also what the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage recommends.
3 mins
agree Andrea Ali : Oops, your answer was not here when I sent mine!
5 mins
agree Attila Piróth
8 mins
agree Maria Knorr
9 mins
agree Fantutti (X)
12 mins
agree Emilia Carneiro
28 mins
agree Yelena.
32 mins
agree Jamiewalke
34 mins
agree Gordana Podvezanec
1 hr
agree jerrie : Sorry Fuad, should've put an agree here. Mine was nothing to do with grammar...just a personal preference
3 hrs
agree Tanja Abramovic (X)
2 days 11 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to you all. As this is a scientific paper to be published in Europe I'll go with grammar instead of usage. "
3 mins

three-hour per week /three-hour-per week

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Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versión en HTML
... English Pronunciation - UMEI 006 A three-hour per week course designed to improve
students' pronunciation skills through diagnosis of individual problems and ...
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Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versión en HTML
... Schedule. ) * Selected sections are teacher-directed; students attend
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Peer comment(s):
neutral Kim Metzger : So what's the conclusion? Take your pick?
5 mins
That's right. I forgot to mention that both are used, but the second one is the "officially" correct answer.
neutral Jamiewalke : If I saw the first one, I would automatically assume it to be wrong.
35 mins
That's why I put the others
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+2
8 mins

three-hour-per-week course

As you very well said, the whole phrase functions as an adjective modifying the noun "course", therefore it must be hyphenated.

Usage is another thing.

Am I too old fashioned or a grammar addict?
Peer comment(s):
agree Attila Piróth
19 mins
Thanks, Attila!
agree Tony M : If you are, then I am too! :-))
26 mins
Thanks, Dusty! We are two "oldies" already!!! :^)
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-1
34 mins

Three hours per week course

The hyphens may well be a grammar rule, but I would never write it like that! I wouldn't use any hyphens at all!

Course duration: Three hours per week for 15 weeks

X is a three hours per week course

This is just my personal (UK)preference - the hyphens just look so bad!
Peer comment(s):
disagree Jamiewalke : this is simply wrong
5 mins
neutral rek21 : Jamie is right on the grammar point, but Jerrie is right about usage. I would never write it like this. Try changing the sentence around to avoid so many hyphens.
43 mins
Agree. I should've put an agree next to Fuad- sorry. My answer was just about personal preference! Maybe best left unsaid : - ((
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