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followup, follow up, follow-up, etc. - ?


Posted: Aug 15, 2011

Can someone please tell me what the new and improved BOS rules are for the use of these words?

There is no follow-up with a hyphen. sm - oldMT

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For about the past ten years the standard has been follow up (verb) and followup (adjective).

Follow-up - ca

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My AAMT book says for the noun or adjective form, follow-up is an acceptable alternative.

Follow up/ followup - Newbie

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The way I understand it is this: Noun/ adjective form would be followup/follow-up. The verb form would be follow up.


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