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A hyphen is a symbol used to join two words or two syllables of a single word together. It is not to be confused with dashes or the minus symbol, as these are all longer than the hyphen and serve different purposes in language.
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Hyphenation, adjectives and 'attributive' words
While explaining an answer on hyphenation, (This was the question)
I had a bit of trouble explaining where hyphenation should be used and where it should not. … Could somebody give a thorough explanation on when to use hyphenation in adjectives and when not to? …
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Should "request-after-request" be hyphenated?
No, hyphenation is definitely wrong in that context. Hyphenation is used only when the word becomes attributive. …
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