{"id":341,"date":"2010-03-16T09:09:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:53:34","slug":"hyphens-with-common-prefixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/hyphens\/hyphens-with-common-prefixes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyphens with Common Prefixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should we use a hyphen with a common prefix such as <em>non<\/em> or <em>un<\/em>? For example, is it <em>non-alcoholic beverages<\/em> or <em>nonalcoholic beverages<\/em>?<br \/>\nGenerally, with common prefixes, you do not need to use a hyphen unless it would avoid possible confusion.\u00a0 Therefore, most writers would write <em>nonalcoholic beverages<\/em>.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"22%\"><strong>Examples:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78%\">uninviting<br \/>\nuninterested<br \/>\nnoncompetitive<br \/>\npreexisting (some writers would write <em>pre-existing<\/em>)<br \/>\npretest<br \/>\nposttest (some writers would write <em>post-test<\/em>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Exception: <\/strong>As the above examples suggest, when adding a prefix creates a double vowel or double consonant, many writers use a hyphen.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Examples:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">ultra-ambitious<br \/>\nnon-native<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should we use a hyphen with a common prefix such as non or un? For example, is it non-alcoholic beverages or nonalcoholic beverages? Generally, with common prefixes, you do not need to use a hyphen unless it would avoid possible confusion.\u00a0 Therefore, most writers would write nonalcoholic beverages. Examples: uninviting uninterested noncompetitive preexisting (some writers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyphens"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}