What various types of word combinations may be hyphenated?
As a general rule, two or more words that act together to modify another word are hyphenated, provided that they appear before the word they modify: end-of-the-month report well-known researcher but a report filed at the end of the month researcher that was well known Compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine are hyphenated, together with compound adjectives that begin with a numeral or number: sixty-one twenty-seven 16-unit division seven-dollar seats Two or more words that act together to form a new meaning are hyphenated: bald-faced good-looking double-check self-satisfied Hyphens are used to avoid a double-vowel or triple-consonant string: not but antiintellectual anti-intellectual Falllike weather Fall-like weather crossstich cross-stitch Connected words that act like adjectives are not hyphenated if the first word ends in -ly: clearly defined roles highly structured exercise partially completed project poorly conceived design Prefixes are generally not hyphenated, unless th
As a general rule, two or more words that act together to modify another word are hyphenated, provided that they appear before the word they modify: end-of-the-month report well-known researcher but a report filed at the end of the month researcher that was well known Compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine are hyphenated, together with compound adjectives that begin with a numeral or number: sixty-one twenty-seven 16-unit division seven-dollar seats Two or more words that act together to form a new meaning are hyphenated: bald-faced good-looking double-check self-satisfied Hyphens are used to avoid a double-vowel or triple-consonant string: not but antiintellectual anti-intellectural Falllike weather Fall-like weather crossstich cross-stitch Connected words that act like adjectives are not hyphenated if the first word ends in -ly: clearly defined roles highly structured exercise partially completed project poorly conceived design Prefixes are generally not hyphenated, unless t
