A useful post I’m reblogging for our writing group (and for me, so I know where I can find it.)
I generally just guess about hyphenated words (or not). It’s handy to know ‘the rules’ (and that I’m not the only one confused about co-operate – see comments).
National Novel Writing Month is in full swing. I am busy writing incomprehensible words that will require a great deal of revising and editing. But all that aside, this perfectly good post on hyphens and compound words was just lying around, so here you go! It was first posted on June 26, 2017, and since then, nothing has changed in the world of hyphenation. However, we can always use a little refresher when it comes to compound words and their usage.
Compound words are frequently a source of grief when I receive my manuscript back from my editor. Despite my best efforts, I habitually hyphenate words that should not be hyphenated.
Most people know that a compound word combines two or more words that function as a single unit of meaning.
Most people also know that there are two types of compounds:
- those written as single words, with no hyphenation…
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as I may have mentioned before, I just go with whatever Grammarly tells me… 🙂
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I tend to do the same with ProWritingAid – when I remember to use it.
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I think grammarly seems to always be running in the background.
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It used to do that in my Facebook – got on my nerves so I turned it off. ProWritingAid did that too until I turned off Realtime.
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It is annoying, but I guess I’m too lazy to turn it off 🙂
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My daughter is driven mad by errors in advertising. She has actually written stores about using anytime when they mean any time. She would love this post.
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Those grocer’s apostrophes get to me…
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