{"id":604,"date":"2010-08-17T13:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T19:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2020-11-25T10:16:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:16:42","slug":"hyphenating-between-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/hyphens\/hyphenating-between-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyphenating Between Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us get confused about when to hyphenate between words. For example, should you write <em>nearly-extinct wolves<\/em> or <em>nearly extinct wolves<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Adverbs ending in <em>-ly<\/em> should not be hyphenated.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases it is <strong>compound adjectives<\/strong>\u2013adjectives that act as one idea with other adjectives\u2013that get hyphenated in front of nouns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example: <\/strong>The crowd threw out the barely edible cake.<br \/>\nThe word <em>barely <\/em>is an <em>-ly<\/em> adverb answering how edible the cake was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> It&#8217;s a lovely-looking home.<br \/>\nThe word <em>lovely <\/em>is an <em>-ly<\/em> adjective, because we could say <em>a lovely home<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example: <\/strong>We live in a two-story building.<br \/>\nThe word <em>two <\/em>in this sentence is an adjective working together with <em>story <\/em>to describe the noun <em>building<\/em>. Therefore, <em>two-story<\/em> is a compound adjective requiring a hyphen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example: <\/strong>The announcer offered a blow-by-blow description of the boxers&#8217; punches.<br \/>\n<em>Blow-by-blow<\/em> is acting as one idea. Therefore, it is a compound adjective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> Our building is two stories.<br \/>\nOften when the description follows the noun, it is not necessary to hyphenate it.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about hyphens, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/punctuation\/hyphens.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/grammar_quiz\/hyphens_1.asp\">Click here<\/a> to try a free quiz on hyphens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us get confused about when to hyphenate between words. For example, should you write nearly-extinct wolves or nearly extinct wolves? Adverbs ending in -ly should not be hyphenated. In most cases it is compound adjectives\u2013adjectives that act as one idea with other adjectives\u2013that get hyphenated in front of nouns. Example: The crowd threw [&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-604","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\/604"}],"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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}