February 2019
Beginner
3520 pages
50h 49m
English
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Harvard Business Review Guides Ultimate Boxed Set (16 Books)
by Harvard Business Review, Nancy Duarte, Bryan A. Garner, Mary Shapiro, Jeff Weiss
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Appendix C
A Dozen Punctuation Rules You Absolutely Need to Know
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Hyphenate your phrasal adjectives.
A small-business incentive is different from a small business incentive. A limited-liability clause is different from a limited liability clause. When two or more words as a unit modify a noun, they must be hyphenated (unless certain exceptions apply). So a hotel’s door sign advising the staff not to disturb the guests would be a do-not-disturb sign. A company that is 25 years old is a 25-year-old company.
There are some exceptions: (1) Don’t hyphenate simple phrases formed by an -ly adverb and a past-participial adjective <a greatly exaggerated claim>. (2) Don’t hyphenate phrases formed with proper nouns <New Zealand exports> or foreign words ...
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