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Date: | Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:02:02 -0800 |
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Hi,
Is it still 'the rule' to hyphenate multi-word modifiers when they occur
in front of their heads, but not after it, as in:
The child is six years old.
The six-year-old child ...
This is an extension for a laptop computer.
This is a laptop-computer extension. ?
I was recently compiling an editing-tips webpage (there it is again!) for
my students, and decided to spell-check it on Netscape. Netscape told me
to remove ALL hyphens in multi-word premodifiers. My word processor
doesn't do this. Is there confusion out there in Webworld? Or in my addled
brain?
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