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Help regarding grammar
Posted: 13 Jul 2022, 10:16
by Christina Moonlight
1) Bedtime or Bed-time
2) Highly driven or Highly-driven
3) Storyline or story-line
Please help me out with these words
Re: Help regarding grammar
Posted: 13 Jul 2022, 10:46
by Bradley Shelvie
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
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