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over thinking hyphens - research
Posted: Sep 29, 2013
I have stumped myself by thinking too much about what is an adjective and when does a noun act like an adjective.
I'm very clear on something like short arm cast not being hyphanated (each word is a noun), but what about needle tip placement? Is there supposed to be a hyphen there?
Fluoroscopy was used to confrm needle tip placement OR
Fluoroscopy was used to confrm needle-tip placement.
I would appreciate some feedback about it.
got an answer - research
[ In Reply To ..]yes, the hyphen would be used. My niece is a lawyer who is a professor teaching classes on how to write law. She found this in a grammar book on her desk:
"Readers shouldn't have to hesitate in telling adjectives from nouns. Yet they must often do just that when the writer fails to show that a phrase that looks like a noun is actually functioning as an adjective. The general rule is that a phrase, when functioning as an adjective (or compound modifier) before a noun, should be hyphenated. The only common exception occurs with adverbs ending in -ly."
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