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How to Use Hyphens: Twenty-one Rules of Hyphenation Paperback – October 12, 2015
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Improved, 2nd Edition Released October 12, 2015!
Which of These Sentences Has a Hyphenation Mistake?
- The winner of the pie-eating contest ate ninety nine pies.
- The seven-foot tall man was obvious in the crowd.
- Her two-thirds share of the business meant that she called the shots.
- She owned two-thirds of the voting stock in the business.
- He preferred to use a 200 millimeter lens to photograph birds.
- She preferred to use a 300 mm lens to photograph birds.
- This climate requires that you air condition your house in the summer.
- That city typically has a 30-inch rain-fall annually.
- He asked, "When will my drycleaning be ready?"
- That tennis player's under-hand return is super-fast.
- His fans loved his self-deprecating humor.
- My ex sister-in-law is a very kind woman.
- What is an 'anti-question' to the news magazine's editor?
- The foilless airplane fell to the ground.
- Creditors do not mind when customers predate their bill paying checks.
How to Use Hyphens will teach you how to find and fix all mistakes!
Plus, hyphenation can be fun, once you learn the twenty-one rules in How to Use Hyphens. Learn about suspended hyphens, special prefixes and suffixes, and even how a hyphen is different from a dash in this valuable book!
- Print length66 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 12, 2015
- Dimensions5.06 x 0.15 x 7.81 inches
- ISBN-101517790301
- ISBN-13978-1517790301
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- Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 12, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 66 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1517790301
- ISBN-13 : 978-1517790301
- Item Weight : 4.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.06 x 0.15 x 7.81 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,569,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,367 in Grammar Reference (Books)
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2014This useful little work is a tasty munch for grammatists, and helpful for those who are tired of hesitating at the jump where something probably calls for a hyphen, or where one might make you look confused.
The examples are crisp, if occasionally distracting: "Wrong: 'She used a 9 millimeter gun in the robbery.' Right: 'She used a 9-millimeter gun in the robbery.'"
The author wisely counsels that people do not always like to be corrected, "even if they have asked." (That alone is worth the price of the book.)
He does not neglect those who want to know how hyphens (and dashes, an entirely different matter) are expressed in ASCII, Unicode and HTML.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2015Quite helpful. I love hyphens, whether they are double-modifying adjectives (i.e., eighteenth-and nineteenth-century poets) or have other uses . This short synopsis didn't go into the different style guides but did provide me with some helpful tips and useful purposes when applying them to other parts of speech.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2015A clear and concise little guide. It cleared up much of my misunderstandings about
hyphens.
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- Kingboxer JPReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Well presented
Enjoyable reading on understanding hyphens. J