Re: Common grammar question

[Richard Mateosian <xrmxrm -at- gmail -dot- com>]

This rule may be too broad, depending on what you mean by "serving as
a single adjective."  If I say that Macbeth is a deeply flawed
character, I certainly don't need a hyphen. Or here's one I often see
hyphenated, but I wouldn't: His operation ran like a well oiled
machine.  ...RM

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Susan W Gallagher <susanwg -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> "use a hyphen to join two or more words serving as a single adjective before
> a noun" from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/576/1/

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Richard Mateosian <xrm -at- pacbell -dot- net>
Berkeley, California
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