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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2010Suspension hyphens
Is this the correct use of suspension hyphens? "School-, college- and work-based partnership agreements..." It looks unusual, but maybe I'm just not used to seeing it. > Is this the correct use of suspension hyphens? > "School-, college- and work-based partnership agreements..." Yes.  SignatureMark Brader "Also, be sure to include your signature TWICE in Toronto each article. That way you're sure people will msb@vex.net read it." -- "Emily Postnews" (Brad Templeton) > > Is this the correct use of suspension hyphens? > > "School-, college- and work-based partnership agreements..." > > Yes. Thanks. j set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time continuum: > Is this the correct use of suspension hyphens? > > "School-, college- and work-based partnership agreements..." > > It looks unusual, but maybe I'm just not used to seeing it. More frequent in German because of the long compound words, several of which may have the last element in common, but yes, OK in English too. Signatureξ:) Proud to be curly Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply Prai Jei skrev: > More frequent in German because of the long compound words, several of which > may have the last element in common, The same is true for Danish. SignatureBertel, Denmark Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:51:24 +0000 from j <nospam53709@invalid.invalid>: > Is this the correct use of suspension hyphens? > > "School-, college- and work-based partnership agreements..." > > It looks unusual, but maybe I'm just not used to seeing it. It's quite correct. Still, "-," looks strange, and I would try to rewrite to avoid it: "partnership agreements based in school, college, and work", for instance. (I don't know the original sentence, so that might not match the original meaning well.) SignatureStan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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