HOW 9 Chapter 2 Hyphenating and Dividing words

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HOW 9 Chapter 2Hyphenating and Dividing words
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Summary of chapter

• Compound Nouns and Verbs
• Compound Adjectives
• Prefixes
• Numbers
• Words and word groups never to be divided
• Words to avoid dividing
• Rules and Guidelines for dividing words
• Guidelines for dividing word groups

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Compound Nouns
Separate Words sales tax life insurance Single
Words database stepmother Hyphenated
Words double-talk face-lift
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Compound Verbs
Separate Words to set up to trade in Single
Words to upgrade to handpick Hyphenated
Words to tape-record to e-mail
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Compound Adjectives
When you have a compound Adjective before a noun
or pronoun, it is to be hyphenated. Ex. Always
abide by the 65-mile-an-hour speed limit. When
it comes after, it is not to be hyphenated. Ex.
The speed limit to abide is 65 miles an hour.
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Compound Adjectivescontinued
Using either common, or proper nouns, as
adjectives before nouns or pronouns, a hyphen is
needed between them. Chinese-American Student-t
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Compound Adjectivescontinued
When combining colors with colors, a hyphen is
needed Blue-green Red-orange When combining an
adjective with a color, a hyphen is not
needed. Bright red Hot pink
One exception, snow-white.
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Compound Adjectives continued
Simple fractions are only hyphenated when used
as compound adjectives. John sold his
one-fourth ownership in the company. When it is
used as a noun, there is no hyphen. Only one
third of the stockholders responded to the
question.
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Prefixes
Words beginning with ex (meaning former) and
self are hyphenated those beginning with pre,
re, and non are generally not hyphenated. Words
beginning with co and vice may or may not be
hyphenated. Ex Ex-baseball ex-chairman
Pre Preformatted Re recheck
Co Co-edition coauthor Non
nonpayment Vice Vice-chancellor vice
president The book suggests checking the
dictionary for correct spelling.
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Numbers
Numbers 21-99 are hyphenated when the appear in
word form. I am twenty-one years
old. Numbers over 99 are not hyphenated. Six
thousand and twenty-seven.
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Number continued
Hyphen-number-word compound adjectives. Ex. We
have a three-year lease. No hyphen-percentages,
amount in the millions, capitalized
words. Ex. We experienced a 25 percent sales
increase. Ex. K Inc. announced a 3 million
profit. Ex. We will have Model 129 within next
week.
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Words and Word Groups never to be divided

• Dont divide one-syllable words
• Dont divide the first or last letter of words
• Dont divide abbreviation
• Dont divide contractions and numerals

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Words to Avoid Dividing

• Avoid dividing words containing six letters or
  less
• Avoid dividing a word after a two-letter prefix

Let ter
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Rules and Guidelines for Dividing Words

• Divide hyphenated and single-word compounds at
  their natural breaks.
• Divide words after a prefix or before suffix
• Divide words between double letters
• Divide words between two vowels pronounced
  separately

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Guidelines for Dividing Word Groups
January 7, / 1999 not January / 7, 1999 Ms.
Marilyn / Farrar not Ms. / Marilyn Farrar One
Park / Street
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Summing it all up
Compound Nouns and Verbs Compound
Adjectives Prefixes Numbers Words and word groups
never to be divided Words to avoid dividing Rules
and Guidelines for dividing words Guidelines for
dividing word groups