{"id":698,"date":"2011-02-01T10:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T16:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2020-11-25T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:23:40","slug":"hyphens-with-common-prefixes-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/hyphens\/hyphens-with-common-prefixes-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyphens with Common Prefixes, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current trend is to do away with unnecessary hyphens with common prefixes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples: <\/strong><br \/>\nnoncompliance<br \/>\ncopayment<br \/>\nsemiconscious<br \/>\nunending<\/p>\n<p>However, there are exceptions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exception:<\/strong> Hyphenate all words beginning with the prefix <em>self.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\nself-assured<br \/>\nself-respect<br \/>\nself-addressed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exception:<\/strong> Use a hyphen with the prefix <em>ex<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> His ex-wife sued for nonsupport.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exception:<\/strong> Hyphenate prefixes when they come before proper nouns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\nun-American<br \/>\nnon-English speaker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current trend is to do away with unnecessary hyphens with common prefixes. Examples: noncompliance copayment semiconscious unending However, there are exceptions.<\/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-698","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\/698"}],"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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}