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Compounding our Modifiers 2024 Apr 8
Why do we sometimes hyphenate between two otherwise normal words? The hyphen shows up when two words are used together in a single thought to modify the noun which follows them. This well-researched article from the American Copy Editors Society from 2005 dives through the whole story and its sources.
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