Hyphenation: The Big Picture

When you're combining two or more words to modify another, you often hyphenate them. But in nouns and verbs, hyphens are sometimes part of the official spelling.

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Tags: ADJECTIVES, COPY EDITING, DICTIONARIES, GRAMMAR, hyphens, PUNCTUATION

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