In fact, most of them are. And you can look them up. So, instead of just slapping a hyphen in between car and port , do a check. What do you know? It's one word. You just saved yourself a valuable hyphen. Repeat with other words; this is really the simplest and most effective rule of hyphenation! Mignon Fogarty, aka, the Grammar Girl, does point out that hyphens tend to come with a lot of "exceptions"—so maybe a lot of this is the hyphen's fault, or at least you can blame it to some extent.
Some brief tips from her: Check the dictionary; hyphenate two words to apply them as a single unit before a noun but not after it; check a dictionary also when hyphenating within a single word re-press or repress? But the hardest thing about hyphenation is that words are in flux, too. So what was once a compound word might not be see below, my opinions on e-mail as time passes and different spellings become accepted and even the norm.
This is just the trickiness of grammar. Again, excluding those sorts of difficulties, Purdue's Online Writing Lab covers the basics nicely:. I'd add, include the hyphens in proper names when you must, but feel free to mercilessly judge anyone with more than one hyphen in his or her full name. Anyone else is hogging the world supply of hyphens. Those of us without hyphens in our names get a plus-one at the hyphen dance. Use that hyphen wisely. On the other soul-scraping side of hyphenation is when necessary hyphens get left out.
Sometimes you need them. Your "sexcrazed friend" is really sex-crazed, though he or she might not like to hear you say it. Likewise, that "Elvis like character" you keep running into in Vegas who serenades you and your "sister in law" "every-time" you see him; he needs help. Where do those poor family-less hyphens go? Who knows, but it can't be good. We demand hyphen redistribution at the hyphen factory in these hyphen-unjust cases. Oh, one final thing.
It's Spider-Man, which the courageous people of Twitter are reminding people daily. Why would you not simplify this, and use insufficient instead? I forgot about that word. It may have the same meaning, but it's a terrible way to say it. No, I'm suggesting that you rephrase the sentence so that it doesn't sound horrible. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. If you are writing for something like a formal essay, it would be better to write That algorithm suffers from insufficient data modelling techniques.
Improve this answer. SegNerd SegNerd 1, 6 6 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Insufficient means "not enough. It doesn't mean the money isn't good enough. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile.
Adverbs describe verbs and adjectives. When well and trained are hyphenated, well means how trained someone is, therefore it is describing an adjective not a noun.
Lexi: Thanks for your notes. Yes, I misidentified well as an adjective, but I stand by the direction to hyphenate this flat adverb to trained before but not after a noun. Thanks, p. Stop making those embarrassing mistakes! Subscribe to Daily Writing Tips today! You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! You'll also get three bonus ebooks completely free! Try It Free Now. Rebecca on December 28, pm Thank you for the clarification on hyphenated words.
Ken on December 28, pm Excellent post, Mark. Michael on December 28, pm Very useful, thanks Mark. Mike Goronsky on July 14, pm A couple of typos exist above. Mike Goronsky on July 14, pm Do you agree with the hyphens in the following? Mark Nichol on July 18, am Mike: Thanks for pointing out the typos. Oliver Lawrence on August 27, pm Examples of compound adjectives formed of two actual adjectives: a deep-red wine, a little-known man but, as you rightly say, a wine that is deep red, a man who was little known.
Jason Hawthorne on October 20, am One that is puzzling me is: Full- and part-time jobs.
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