Help regarding grammar

Some grammar rules (and embarrassing mistakes!) transcend the uniqueness of different regions and style guides. This new International Grammar section by OnlineBookClub.org ultimately identifies those rules thus providing a simple, flexible rule-set, respecting the differences between regions and style guides. You can feel free to ask general questions about spelling and grammar. You can also provide example sentences for other members to proofread and inform you of any grammar mistakes.

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1) Bedtime or Bed-time
2) Highly driven or Highly-driven
3) Storyline or story-line
Please help me out with these words
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Hello @June Moon,
1) I've searched all the major dictionaries and none has the hyphenated or open form of the compound. Therefore, it is safe to say the closed form, "bedtime" is the correct format.
2) All compounds with -ly adjectives DO NOT take hyphens and do not have a closed version. This is the same with all self- compounds.
3) Here, again, no dictionary has the hyphenated version. Therefore, the closed format is the accepted one.

I hope this helps :-) :tiphat:.
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