Curtis Honeycutt | Grammar Guy: What to do with those highfalutin hyphenations
Do you ever find yourself in a situation where you donât know something, so you just avoid it altogether? For instance, because I donât know how to swim, I avoid parties on mega yachts. I canât tell you how many yacht-vitations Iâve turned down over the years because of my lackluster swimming abilities. How many of us avoid writing words that may or may not need hyphens because we donât know the rules? I know itâs not just me. Today, Iâm going to focus on when to hyphenate those tricky adverb phrases known as compound modifiers.
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